On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > On 17/08/13 16:56, Jack Wilborn wrote: >> [...] >> sending any kind of e-mail or writing virtually impossible. Ｔｈｅ >> ｔｈｉｎｇｓ ｃｈａｎｇｅｓ ｆｏｎｔｓ！！ > > Oh, wow! > > It's not actually the 'font' changing there, but the character set or > 'Unicode plane', I think; non-ASCII characters are being typed for some > reason. Does it always trigger after the first sentence?
Good idea, try to figure out what triggers it, if not shift-space or ctrl-space. > Which desktop environment are you using? (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE...) > The maintainers of the relevant desktop environment might know what > causes this. I think they would be first interested in what he installed just before this started. > You may need to check settings for keyboard layout, language and > similar. I have a feeling your desktop is configured for an Asian > script instead of whatever you were expecting. I was thinking any of the scripts that allow more characters than the keyboard has would do the trick, including, say, Spanish. But I'm not familiar with how accents and tildes are input in Spanish. And I'm pretty sure Spanish doesn't use the double width versions of Latin, so maybe not Spanish after all. Asian includes Arab, Hebrew, Thai, and so forth, as well, of course. Japanese is the most easily suspect, since it's the Japanese encodings that basically forced the double width characters to be included in Unicode, IIRC. > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > ste...@pyro.eu.org Do Steven's comments help, Jack? I sure wasn't firing on all cylinders when I posted this morning. May not be firing on all cylinders, now. Hope I didn't cause too much confusion. -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iPny-YehaWO5iOz=PUnnDPb_J2E16Zm=hd8yiy-1je...@mail.gmail.com
