Gotta be an easy answer to this....

[Ausatco]

Binos

Try:

Control Panel/Regional and Languages Settings/Languages tab/Details button.

Try setting Language to English(Australian) - US International

and keyboard to US.


I think you can change that from the Keyboard applet in Control Panel, but my applet has become customised with an A4Tech keyboard driver and seems a bit different. Your mileage may vary.

If I leave my language setting as is (US International) and change the keyboard from US to US International, then I can do wierd things like French characters with accents and letter o with two dots on top, but only in applications. The quotes/apotrophe key is "key" for this. eg quotes followed by letter o gives o with two dots on top (ö). Apostrophe e give the French e acute (é) . Apostrophe c gives the French c cedilla (ç). Those examples were cut and paste from notepad - this board won't let me demo it direct.

I tried to replicate your problem with the @ character, but couldn't get anything too wierd. Apostrophe@ and quotes@ gave '@ and "@ - nothing too unordinary about that, except that nothing appeared on screen until the @ was pressed, but that's how the International keyboard works.

If you're running XP it's easier if you activate the Languages toolbar. Both settings are easily available from there - there are seperate icons for Language and Keyboard.

Hope this steers you in a direction from which you ccan fix things.

AA