Sounds logical. I have forwarded it to the engineers to check out. Jeremy
-----Original Message----- From: Corey Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:21:45 +1200 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Kinda off topic > vss wrote: > > > HI All. > > I had to go visit a site yesterday as they had a strange error. > > When I got there the had something like "abcd"" note the 2 dbl > quotes > > at the end. > > I thought, ah theres the problem. > > I took the quotes out, saved the data, but when I went to put them > back > > in, I did Shift ' and nothing happend so I did it again and got "" ! > > did it again, same thing. > > Someone said they have seen this in Windows 2K before, but dont know > how > > to fix it. > > Anyone else seen this and know how to turn it off?? > > It sounds like the text services input language feature. Several > non-english languages use commonly accented characters, and this can be > done in several ways. > > The most common is to use certain key sequences - such as Shift+' for > umlauts. So when you type a double-quote, it queues it and waits for > the next keypress. If that happens to be a character that can be > accented appropriately, it emits a single character. If not, it emits > the double quote and whatever other character you typed... in this case > another double quote. > > Long story short... check out the input language settings in the > control > panel. On XP you can find it in the "Regional and Language Options" > control panel, "Languages" tab, "Text services and input languages". > Should be something similar in Win2K. > > I don't know if it's possible to switch this off for specific cases in > the VCL. You might try fooling with the ImeMode in your edit controls, > but more likely you'll have to do something with the text services API. > I'm guessing it'd be easier to tell the client to switch their text > input language back to English. If they don't want to (and they may > have reasons), then it's up to them to deal with the problems it > causes. > > Incidentally, I did some transcription work from Maori earlier this > year. We found a Maori input translation which used the ~ as an accent > for putting macrons over vowels. We just switched input languages as > necessary. > > -- > Corey Murtagh > The Electric Monk > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
