On February 1, 2007, jdow wrote:
Hook up any old alternative and see if that set of characters works or not. If it works and the other keyboard doesn't - maybe NewEgg or one of its competitors could provide a German keyboard. Shipping might take a long time or be expensive, though.
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That's a great suggestion. I hadn't thought of it, but I would have to buy a new keyboard to do it, as I don't have ready access to another right now. The curious ting, though, was that it only seems to happen about once a week, for about 3-5 minutes, and then all is okay. I'd have to wait quite a while
I may have to resort to this, if nothing else works or it gets worse.
Was talking to a local shop and they can indeed get foreign keyboards, but I don't now how fast.
I have not being able to type äüßöáà and the like. There is the xkbd compose key as an option, but the extra keys on a 105-key keyboard are so nice.
Wonder why they don't just make all standard keyboards Western European compatible, instead of all these different numbers of keys?