Really annoying Vista problem

Does anyone have a solution for the problem where hitting the apostrophe and backslash keys in Vista randomly produces an é

I thought it had been fixed in SP1, but this doesnt seem to be the case.

 

'\'\\''\'\\'\''\\\''''\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\''\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\\''\'\\'\''\'\'\\'''\'\'\'\'\'\'\''''\\\

I tried, but can't get the é. (Vista 64 SP1)

 

'\'\''\'\'\\''\'\'\'\ me too

OP > Are you sure you haven't by mistake turned on some other language option or something?

 

`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\`\ me too

it seems you have a wrong language selected like fonduekid said .

 

Just wondering, why you would need to do an apostrophe and then a backslash.

 

^^^ yeah... why? lol > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q='\&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= may be trying to find something new?

But seriously, OP, figured out anything, mate??

 

Apps that you were using? Browser? any other keys combination that you overlooked (shift, ctrl..)?

cheers ...

 

I did manage to find something over Google.

In short, it's a Vista bug... When you have more than 1 keyboard layout installed Vista will randomly switch between them for no reason.

 

I have the UK and US layout installed. No Bug. Does é belong to a different language ? (French ?)

EDIT: You're right. I have problems sometimes related to @ and ". Inter-changed. Link ?

 

NVM, Disabled Ctrl+Shift

 

Yeah é is French, though it seems like other languages have problems too. I'm assuming that most of the above posters live in the US and/or picked US as their location during setup, which only installs the US keyboard layout.

I'm kinda surprised that Microsoft still hasn't fixed the problem though, considering how Vista is nearly 2 years old now. I suppose I now have another reason to recommend that people keep using XP