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Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:21 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

It did that for me, then I used a smaller photo (one that was avatar sized) and it seemed to work - may of course have just been luck, but perhaps worth a try if you haven't?

Wasn't putting photo in then, didn't get that far, haven't got a photo anyway

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:22 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Bernie66 wrote:

It won't let me put an email address in, it gives me *'*' instead of the *@* I need, and then laughs and throws me out.

Use the number two key with the shift pressed down

No good Penny. I am a halfwit tonight.

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:26 pm Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

It won't let me put an email address in, it gives me *'*' instead of the *@* I need, and then laughs and throws me out.

I got that aswell Bernie

I put it down to it picking up on my IP address and associating my ENGLISH keyboard with the french

Try putting a " (that is the symbol above the 2) in place of the @ and you should be OK

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:29 pm Post subject:
Nah, I asked young Penny to have a go and she sorted it out in seconds.. young and gifted

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:30 pm Post subject:
Sorry Penny, I just realised you already tried to teach him that. Beaten to the post again ... Story of my life today

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 9:34 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

Sorry Penny, I just realised you already tried to teach him that.

Beaten to the post again ...

Story of my life today

Don't worry pet - you're looking very tasty today, so a little slowness is totally forgiven

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 10:10 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

Bernie66 wrote:

It won't let me put an email address in, it gives me *'*' instead of the *@* I need, and then laughs and throws me out.

I got that aswell Bernie

I put it down to it picking up on my IP address and associating my ENGLISH keyboard with the french

No I think it does that for everyone. Somehow it seems to have mapped everyones keyboard to a US (or French? ) layout

Last edited by Jb on Tue Jan 30, 07 11:13 pm; edited 1 time in total

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 07 10:47 pm Post subject:
Still can't get the photo on. Never mind. My keyboard has the " and @ the wrong way round anyway.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 10:17 am Post subject:

JB wrote:

Simon wrote:

Bernie66 wrote:

It won't let me put an email address in, it gives me *'*' instead of the *@* I need, and then laughs and throws me out.

I got that aswell Bernie

I put it down to it picking up on my IP address and associating my ENGLISH keyboard with the french

No I think it does that for everyone. Somehow it seems to have mapped everyones keyboard to a US (or French? ) layout

Ahem. *No* not everyone.
That particular problem doesn't arise on the Mac.
My guess is that its some sort of quirk in the Windoze implementation of Java/Javascript that is being used to validate each keypress... Something like assuming all PC's have a US keyboard...

Jamanda wrote:

My keyboard has the " and @ the wrong way round anyway.

That sounds as though there is US/UK confusion between the actual keyboard and what the system has been told.
Have you perhaps a US keyboard (no � sign) that you are telling the PC is a UK keyboard so that shift-3 gives you � ??

sean
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 12:10 pm Post subject:
Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 2:53 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

OK, well it is a pity that British Windows uses a non (ISO) standard layout, while British Mac does use an ISO standard layout...

But I don't think its the end of the world.
https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2005/11/20/using_a_british.php
Like the man says, just don't use any of the odd punctuation characters in your login password. (Nice idea to just put the special layout in the individual *user's* library...)
You probably already know about the system preference for the order of the Command and Option keys from the Windows and Alt keys.

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 6:10 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

Don't worry, you soon get used to it. It's what I use.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 8:00 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

sean wrote:

Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

Don't worry, you soon get used to it. It's what I use.

But you don't have to "get used to it".
If you want what you *are* used to (or you want the keycaps and their output to tie up - a reasonable expectation) you *can* have it!

If its the only physical keyboard attached (its simpler that way) and everyone agrees on using the same layout, put the windows layout (linked above) into the Keyboard Layouts folder inside the Library folder at the top level (in the window for your hard disk).

That makes it available (to all User accounts).
There are dozens of layouts installed by Apple, including 3 Afgan variants, a couple of Bulgerian ones, and all the way to one Welsh one (

really).
Selecting your Windows layout means a trip to the International preference panel and the tab for the Input Menu.
Simplest would be to then 'tick' British Windows and 'untick' British (and anything else, like US that might be ticked). And that'll do you.
For folk with different preferences sharing the computer its a little more complicated. But not much.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:51 pm Post subject:
There's no room Don't think I have got a photo of me as it is usually me holding the camera. Will go and have a look.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 07 8:43 am Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Gervase wrote:

sean wrote:

Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

Don't worry, you soon get used to it. It's what I use.

But you don't have to "get used to it".

They do unless the get the tippex out on the keyboard. Changing the location will only change the translation of which key does what, not what the look like when you're hitting them.

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