On 09/08/2011 12:38 p.m., Jarvis, Matthew wrote: >> Well I guess you need to play more with international environments. >> Your keyboard is mapped to a language. Characters in Russian have a >> different ID on the keyboard then my US-EN keyboard. >> >> This sets up you your numbers, money, time, date just to name a few. >> > > It didn't occur to him to open up and READ the Quick Start Guide that > certainly came with the machine?
Sure... After he was set up I changed his keyboard settings to the proper ones. Do you know how long it took me? You have to have a wordpad open, change the settings to say "Spanish(Argentina)", go to wordpad, try the 10 keys that will tell you you are in the right setting, no, it is not that one. Back to settings go to "Spanish (Traditional)", go to wordpad, same thing. Back to settings.....etc.etc. till you find out that it's "Spanish (USA)" keyboard you want. And no, it is not in the quick start guide. In a "proper" OS it will ask you to type at most 5 keys and ask you which of three choices appeared in a data entry control, and from there it will deduce your keyboard setting (anyone using Ubuntu knows what I'm talking about). And as a final point. I don't care if it did or did not occur to him to read a quick guide. If there is a way to do it that will guarantee no problems and other which requires the user to read something. Which would you choose for your systems? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
