Strange characters when composing text/email messages

blegs38552 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-05-2010, 09:44 AM

When composing an email or text message, I type a character on the top row of the QWERTY keyboard, and it comes out as a Unicode character rather than the normal ASCII character (see attachment below). I identified these as Latin Letters with CEDILLA, which is a little hook that is used to modify the pronunciation (per Wikepedia). Does anyone have any idea why these are being inserted into my messages, and how I can stop the behavior (perhaps a registry tweak of some sort)? This does not happen every time I type one of these characters, usually when I roll my finger off of the top of the key (that's the best way that I can describe it). See my attachment below for some of these examples (this will be tough to read, but perhaps someone can make sense of it). When I use the built in spell check, the word containing one of these characters is flagged as an error (but, not surprisingly, with no suggestion) since one of the letters is not recognized.

I have posted this query to various forums. Either I have received no response, or the responder is unable to replicate the problem (but I cannot believe that I am the only person with it).

Fuzzy Wuzzy · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2010, 08:01 PM

It happens to me when im typing and accidentally hit the 'down' key, i guess when the 'down' key is pressed after typing a letter, it changes it to an accented letter.

blegs38552 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2010, 09:06 PM

Pretty close - I tried this and it appears to require a simultaneous pressing of the down arrow and the letter key. Now that we know this, does anyone have any idea how to turn this non-feature off?

Fuzzy Wuzzy · #4 (**permalink**) 10-07-2010, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by blegs38552

Pretty close - I tried this and it appears to require a simultaneous pressing of the down arrow and the letter key. Now that we know this, does anyone have any idea how to turn this non-feature off?

Yeah I've been trying to figure out how to do this...it gets really annoying. Also, do you notice that when you type there's randomly a space inside of a word instead of inbetween them? For example.

"Hellot here. How arey ou?

blegs38552 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-07-2010, 09:01 PM

Maybe there is a registry setting that can be hacked. My son thinks it might be a hardware issue, but Samsung basically blew me off when I sent them a query.

Any help will be appreciated.