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Bug 25776

Summary:	Change of keyboard layout when pressing CTRL+ALT+LEFTARROW
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Graeme Rocher <graemerocher>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Graeme Rocher

2002-11-06 10:39:24 EST

I have a UK keyboard layout where the " is where the 2 key is and the @ sign is 
where the ' key is.
When using the Java Class Editor I pressed CTRL+ALT+LEFTARROW by accident (ie 
instead of CTRL+SHIFT+LEFTARROW for selective hilighting) and eclipse changed 
my keyboard layout settings to the US keyboard layout. ie I had to press @ to 
get a ". This happened in eclipse only and my keyboard settings were not 
effected in any other application.

This definitely happened subsequent to pressing the above key combination as I 
had immediately prior to performing this action used to " key and it worked 
fine.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2002-11-07 10:16:09 EST

This is caused by your OS - check your keyboard settings: I assume you more than
one input locale installed. By default some hotkeys are enabled which let you
switch between them. This will happen in all applications - not just Eclipse.

Comment 2 Ralf Hauser

2005-06-25 05:52:50 EDT

see also Bug 101759