448363 - Keystrokes registering as different characters in mail interface (keymap mixed up)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Sean O'Connell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16

Since the last Thunderbird update, some keys do not register correctly when I am typing e-mails.  I think the character map is messed up - this issue only happens in Thunderbird, not in Firefox, or in any other program.  Specifics are
when I hit the apostrophe key I get 'è'
when I hit the quotation key I get 'È'
` gets me a /
~ gets me a \
[ gets me a ^
{ gets me a ¨
] gets me a ç
} gets me a Ç
< gets me a '
> gets me a "
/ gets me a é
? gets me a È
\ gets me a à
| gets me a À

There might be others, but that is all I have noticed so far

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.happens in all profiles all the time since the last update - I can't make it stop!
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Expected Results:  
keystrokes should register as normal!!

in most cases the spell checker will catch and fix things (normally with contractions) but I can no longer ask a question (?) or use quotations as the spell checker is not designed to catch these things.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sounds like your keyboard setup got changed - i don't see how this would relate to thunderbird though. Have you checked the keyboard setting? Does reinstalling help? Extension problem?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete due to no response