Dov,

The current VNC Free Edition release does not handle dynamic switching of
keyboard layout at the server end.  Behaviour 1) will be caused by the
Alt-Shift getting through to the server, causing the keyboard layout to
change, which VNC Server Free Edition won't detect.  Things are further
complicated by the fact that Alt-Shift will *also* change the viewer's
keyboard layout.

The latest VNC Server Enterprise & Personal Editions releases take care of
language-switching themselves, so that you use Alt-Shift to switch the VNC
Viewer keyboard layout and, regardless of what the keyboard layout is
currently set to at the server end, VNC Server will select a keyboard layout
capable of producing the desired character before performing the key-press.

Note that you should always change input language on the viewer computer,
not the server, since the viewer computer is the one that actually has the
keyboard attached.

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dov Margulis
> Sent: 21 January 2006 13:04
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: VNC language changing problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using vnc for quite a few years now without too many serious
> problems.
> Recently I've Discovered that when I'm trying to change the 
> input language
> to the remote computer, by using the Alt-Shift combination, 
> one of two thing
> happen:
> 1. I can't type ANYTHING !!!   at least until I return to 
> English ( using
> again Alt-Shift ).
> 2. When I programed the remote computer to issue the 
> Alt-Shift combination
> itself I saw the language bar icon changing but when i tried to
> type, the language returned to English.
> 
> Does anyone know if that's a known BUG ?
> Does anyone know of a solution to the problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dov.
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