Posted April 6, 201014 yr Programs on my computer (Vista SP2) frequently get into a funny mode where single quote comes out as an accented e, a double quote comes out as an accented E, a backslash comes out as an accented a and certain other characters come out funny too. It will happen in IE, Firefox, Chrome, gvim editor and possibly other programs. Usually if I shut down that particular program and start it again then it goes away but then may start again after a while, possibly after I have done a cut and paste. If its happening in Chrome, for example, and I need to enter a question mark, say, then I will start up a new gvim session enter the question mark there, copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into Chrome. That will get me a real question mark in Chrome even if I can't enter one directly. Any ideas on what is happening and how to handle this?
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