December 24, 2009

Strange Keyboard

My computer has a keyboard that you can switch back and forth from English to Hebrew. I've run into a few bugs. When I type on Notepad, every time I hit the space bar, the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the line, and with the next letter it jumps back again. When I type a quotation mark, nothing happens until I hit the next letter--then it types both the letter and the mark. For an end quotation mark, I have to hit two spaces. Wordpad does the same, only without the jumping cursor.
One time the quotation mark key was making some sort of umlat or something, but half-way through the page it fixed itself. I suppose the next time I want an umlat, I won't be able to get one. (Er, why would I want an umlat?)
The backspace key, when you're typing with the Hebrew keyboard, goes forward, the opposite way of the arrow on the key, but that's backwards in Hebrew. If you switch back and forth in a document, the cursor will jump to the right place, and the delete key knows which way to go. Pretty clever, these Chinese. Oops, someone might not like that statement. But what else can I say? How about "Pretty clever, Hewlett Packard." Just doesn't have the same ring.

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