Not the language the system is set to, the keyboard layout.  The only
layout I know very well other than English is German, which has the z where
the English y is and vice versa, and has a key for the á which doesn't even
exist in English. (I don't remember which key that maps to in English.) 

> 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
> news:pfretvkp52i9e26i3l95de2sntqoml3dq1{at}4ax.com...
>> 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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