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Can't get í and ú anymore on IE

dranoel · 2007-10-14 15:45:46

Hi The keyboard shortcuts 'Alt Gr + i' and 'Alt Gr + u' have stopped generating í and ú and are now generating the Italics and Underline tags on Internet Explorer on my computers both at home and at work (there's no problem with Firefox). Can these shortcuts be put back the way they were? Thanks Dranoel

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14-10-2007 4:45pm

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dranoel

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Hi

The keyboard shortcuts 'Alt Gr + i' and 'Alt Gr + u' have stopped generating í and ú and are now generating the Italics and Underline tags on Internet Explorer on my computers both at home and at work (there's no problem with Firefox). Can these shortcuts be put back the way they were?

Thanks
Dranoel

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#2 14-10-2007 4:51pm
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I don't think this is a boards.ie issue, perhaps better off here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=105

Open a Notepad document and see if it works there. (Start > Run > notepad > enter)

Check your windows and Firefox language settings. Have you upgraded either recently?

You can always get them from the Character Map (Start > Run > charmap > enter)

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#3 14-10-2007 9:10pm
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Victor wrote: »

I don't think this is a boards.ie issue, perhaps better off here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=105

Open a Notepad document and see if it works there. (Start > Run > notepad > enter)

I believe this is boards: Notepad, Word, Firefox all running fine, it's just when I'm trying to write a post in Irish on boards with IE.

Check your windows and Firefox language settings. Have you upgraded either recently?

I haven't adjusted any language settings. Two seperate non-networked computers running different versions of IE have changed how they behave for 'Alt Gr + i' or 'Alt Gr + u' when posting on boards. They are now behaving as if I pressed 'Ctrl + i' or 'Ctrl + u' giving the italics and underline tags.

You can always get them from the Character Map (Start > Run > charmap > enter)

Thanks for the suggestion but I have to say it is a very poor substitute. Keyboards which are configured regionally for Ireland have the 'Alt Gr' keystroke as standard so that it is straightforward to type accented vowels in Irish.

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#5 14-10-2007 10:35pm
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Ah, I see the problem. I don't think that you used to be able to input Ctrl + B to make [-b-][-/-b-] (minus -) pop-up on yor screen before the upgrade.

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#6 14-10-2007 10:40pm
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Myth wrote: »

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Ah, I see the problem. I don't think that you used to be able to input Ctrl + B to make [-b-][-/-b-] (minus -) pop-up on yor screen before the upgrade.

Yeah ya could, the same way as ctrl+i gives you [.i][./i]

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#7 14-10-2007 10:59pm
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dranoel wrote: »

Hi

The keyboard shortcuts 'Alt Gr + i' and 'Alt Gr + u' have stopped generating í and ú and are now generating the Italics and Underline tags on Internet Explorer on my computers both at home and at work (there's no problem with Firefox). Can these shortcuts be put back the way they were?

Thanks
Dranoel

use firefox and head over the microsoft website and complain bitterly.

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#8 14-10-2007 11:12pm
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Have you tried changing the message editor in your user cp?

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#9 14-10-2007 11:38pm
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Gordon wrote: »

Have you tried changing the message editor in your user cp?

I changed my option from "Standard Editor - extra formatting controls" to "Enhanced Editor - Full WYSIWYG Editing" and hooray - íú.

Strange, I was expecting more with the "enhanced option" but it looks the same as "standard". Why 'Alt Gr' works differently in "standard" is a mystery to me.

Thanks Gordon.

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#10 14-10-2007 11:59pm
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It's due to accesskey bindings used in "standard".

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#11 15-10-2007 9:55am
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Talliesin wrote: »

It's due to accesskey bindings used in "standard".

Why are the accesskey bindings now different for "enhanced" and
"standard". It doesn't make sense to me, where's the consistency? It's creating a new hidden hurdle to anyone coming to Boards wishing to use Irish and IE. How are they supposed to know that they will have to use "enhanced".

I'm still asking for 'Alt Gr' to be put back the way it was please.

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#12 15-10-2007 10:25am
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Was the previous editor the standard or the enhanced editor? I thought we only had two, and now we have three, I could be wrong. If I am right then maybe we have been upgraded to the newer editor automagically, and all profiles will now use this as default. Although, I could be wrong.

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#13 15-10-2007 12:54pm
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just a note that like the OP alt gr + letter used to work fine for me until the upgrade (using IE7). It definitely is the upgrade to boards that has stopped it working.

However I moved to IE7 mainly due to the fact that a lot more features worked on boards with it than firefox so will probably move back.

As the OP says, everyone on IE looks like the will be getting different behaviour since the upgrade, if the 'enhanced' editor now gives closer results to what the 'standard' editor did before the upgrade we should make it the default.

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#14 15-10-2007 5:00pm
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Gordon wrote: »

Was the previous editor the standard or the enhanced editor? I thought we only had two, and now we have three, I could be wrong. If I am right then maybe we have been upgraded to the newer editor automagically, and all profiles will now use this as default. Although, I could be wrong.

The basic has always been there (well for the past few years anyway).

The enhanced doesn't give you many right click options.

I suggest using the standard one.

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#15 15-10-2007 10:14pm
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Another user caught out here:

"I've never said Cad é mar atá tu (fada doesn't work on the u for some reason!!)"

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54202534&postcount=6

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