OpenOffice is convinced I'm French

Torso Boy

So I've left a terribly important essay until the last minute (it's due in eight hours) and I'm typing away in OpenOffice.org when I notice my apostrophe key ( ' ) is giving me a grave accent ( `), and that it's behaving like a French keyboard (tap the key once and then a vowel for an accented letter; tap it twice and you get the accent on its own).

So first I check OO's settings: all US/Canadian English. Then my Windows keyboard settings- all English. I try the hotkey to set my keyboard back to English, to no avail.

This problem has popped up in Firefox but was solvable by restarting the program, so I never thought much of it. I'm currently reinstalling OO in hopes that will fix the problem, but even if it does, I'm dying to know what I'm missing here (just in case it pops up again). Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

LaOs

Hold the left Ctrl key and tap the right Shift key. This cycles through the languages for your keyboard. On my laptop at home, I find I have three stops on that cycle, but you may only have two. Do the combination once, check to see if you are still French, and repeat until you're back to English.

You probably accidentally toggled your language setting (probably the same key combination) somehow and didn't notice. It happens to me all the time.

Torso Boy

LaOs wrote: »

Hold the left Ctrl key and tap the right Shift key. This cycles through the languages for your keyboard. On my laptop at home, I find I have three stops on that cycle, but you may only have two. Do the combination once, check to see if you are still French, and repeat until you're back to English.

You probably accidentally toggled your language setting (probably the same key combination) somehow and didn't notice. It happens to me all the time.

I'm so glad you said this, because for whatever reason everything I read said left CTRL but didn't specify which shift to press, so I kept angrily hitting the left one. Thank you.