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to: DAVID HIGTON
from: MARK J
date: 2020-12-23 07:50:00
subject: Re: Weird keyboard behavi

In message 
          David Higton  wrote:

> In message 
>           Mark J  wrote:

>> In message 
>>          The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>>
>>> On 21/12/2020 22:30, Mayayana wrote:
>>>>     I've got a RPi4 with USB keyboard and mouse. It all works fine but
>>>> there's a very odd thing, which took me awhile to figure out: I have to
>>>> press @ to get " and I have to press " to get @.
>>>>
>>>>    Is that a Pi thing? Linux? Faulty keyboard? International settings?
>>>> I've never seen such behavior. Aside from that it seems to be fine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's an international keyboard thing IIRC.
>>
>> I've lived with this for some time, but on a BeagleBoard running RISCOS. A
>> friendly oddity that comes and goes, sometimes correctly, sometimes
>> wrongly :-)

> What makes it come, and what makes it go?  I can't understand why it would
> change except as a result of a deliberate action on your part.

> David

Life is full of events that sporadically come and go without deliberate
actions - as atm my 'phone line which has been dead for two weeks, but is
able to have WAN connectivity, and for which Techies cannot see any
reason. I am a user, and don't deliberately take actions to violate things
that are working peacefully.

--
Mark J
From RISCOS 5.28 on a BeagleBoard-xM and Raspberry Pi2B
- and Linux on a PandaBoard ES, Raspberry Pi3B+ and Pi4B

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