From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

All codepages in Windows system contain the basic English alphabet in the
same code positions, so any character A-Z a-z 0-1 will not be affected
regardless of what language your system is set to - so that's not it. Even
the multibyte character sets (Chinese and such) contain the English
character set, so you can always use an English keyboard. Pack one when
traveling in Far East ;-)

I don't have any ideas as to what might be the original problem, but
definately wouldn't rule out a virus.

Antti Kurenniemi

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> Do you guys have any multilingual stuff installed anywhere?   I know
> there are different keyboard layouts for different languages... so it
> might be still displaying English but using the keyboard layout for some
> other language.   Which doesn't mean it couldn't be a virus, but that
> might be how the virus works.
>
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:42:36 -0500, Richard B. 
> wrote in message :
>
> >I have two separate users having problems with their keyboards getting
> >remapped and/or showing multiple characters when a single key is
> >pressed.  So far I have not seen any other problems like files getting
> >deleted or renamed.
> >
> >It appears, though I need to confirm it, that the remapping is
> >consistent, that is I know the "P" key always becomes
the "_" key.
> >
> >On one machine, the motherboard and keyboard were replaced, but it
> >still has the problem.  I let that person use an older machine and it
> >did it too.  So I figured it was in the roaming profile.  A gave him a
> >new one yesterday...he claims, and I haven't confirmed it yet, that he
> >got the multiple characters again already.  Next step would be to do a
> >clean install I guess.
> >
> >Another user on a different PC had the same thing happen this morning.
> >
> >I have virus protection and ran the TrendMicro web scanner as
> >well...nada.  Could be a new one tho.
> >
> >Anyone seen this?
> >
> >- Richard
>

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