Joe Delahaye wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

 SH> SHIFT-CTRL at the same time will put the keyboard out of french mode
 SH> and it will work correctly again.
JD> I'll try to remember that   I'd like to know how it gets into
JD> that mode though

  The same way. :)  You are typing so fast you hit shift ctrl. ;)

  Shawn
... Few things are as painful as the truth realised too late.
---