-=> AUGUST ABOLINS wrote to ALL <=-


 AA> A friend of mine has a Mac that says has a problem with the "e"
 AA> key.  He says that every time he presses it, he gets the french
 AA> letter e with the l'accent augu.  Pardon the spelling.  He wants
 AA> the regular letter "e" back. What commands does he need to
 AA> accomplish that?  

I'm not sure if simple commands will work.  Besides trying out what 
you've already read or been told, another possibility exists that I 
haven't seen being brought up.  It's possible that the Mac in question 
has been "hacked" to map the "e" key to the French
version.  It may be 
that the previous owner(s) of the system may have done so because they 
needed to have fast access to that particular character.

I've never remapped keys on my Mac, but others have done so.  
Unfortunately, I don't know the names of any programs/hacks/applications 
that may have permanently altered the keyboard map file.  It may have 
even been done by someone tweaking the file itself.

Please find out what OS level this Mac is running.  I may be able to 
scrounge up the original keyboard mapping file for US English from some 
of the various OS discs I have lying around (OS 8.6, 9.0.4, 9.1, 9.2, 
10.0.0, 10.1, 10.2).

You can try reenabling the US English keyboard setup via the Mac's 
Control Panels, but if the French "e" doesn't disappear, my bet's on the 
possibility that the keyboard file itself has been tampered with.

Let me know.

Regards,

Steve

... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
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