- #WEIRD CHARACTERS AT SIGN IN FOR CHROME MAC SERIES#
- #WEIRD CHARACTERS AT SIGN IN FOR CHROME MAC WINDOWS#
Now, what happens when the UTF-8 series of numbers is interpreted as if it were ISO-8859-1?Ġ圎28099 breaks down as 0圎2 (â), 0x80 (€) and 0x99 (™). I don’t expect you to care about the actual numbers there, but simply notice how dramatically different they are. Let’s take the right single quote (for reasons I’ll explain below): )Įach, of course has a different encoding. (Those might look similar, different, or not appear at all depending on the fonts and character sets available on your computer. In reality the characters we often refer to as apostrophes could be:
When you see funny characters it’s because data encoded using UTF-8 is likely being interpreted as ISO-8859-1.įirst, let’s be clear as mud: there are apostrophes, and apostrophes. Messages remain smaller, but should one of those “other” characters be needed it can be incorporated by using its “longer” representation.Īll that is a lot of back story to the problem. In UTF-8 the entire Unicode character set is broken down by an algorithm into byte sequences that are either 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes long. The reason is simple: the vast majority of characters in common usage in Western languages fall into the 1 byte range. Possible, and in some cases even the right solution, but when you consider that the majority of communications, particularly in the western world, focus on the basic roman alphabet and a few numbers and punctuation, it starts to seem wasteful.Įnter “UTF-8”, for “8 bit Unicode Transformation Format”. “A” is still 65, but if we look at it in hexadecimal the single byte Ascii “A” is 41, while the two-byte Unicode “A” is 0041.Īt this point, it should be clear that switching from Ascii to Unicode would immediately double the size of every email, every document, and everything else that stored text. The problem, of course, is that there are way more than 256 possible characters. While we might spend most of our time with common characters like A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and a handful of punctuation, in reality the there are thousands of other possible characters – particularly if you think globally.Īt the other end of the spectrum is the “Unicode” encoding, which uses two (or more) bytes, giving many more possible different characters. The most common true 8-bit encoding used on the internet today is “ ISO-8859-1”.) (Technically ASCII actually only usesħ bits of that byte, or values from 0-127. The “ASCII” character set or encoding uses a single byte – values from 0 to 255 – to represent up to 256 different characters. Hope someone will suggest something different to try, in meantime will try to find usb or wireless kb.The fundamental concept is that all characters are actually stored as numbers. I'll test it, and post here results, i doubt it's damaged Keyboard, cause it's just replaced, and it's new, its something like alt button is constantly down, and when i type letters it write some strange characters, when i selected virtual kb on screen, these strange characters are marked with orange color, something like to show us, that these symbols are in use.
I don't have usb or wireless KB, it's bad if i have to buy usb or wireless kb for testing this problem, i'll try to find some at my friends maybe. that other people can find them on Apple support page, if google didn't find this page, i'll never find about that trick with keys. , so i speak about this type of support, for publising some "tricks, magic keys combinations" etc. No suggestion, like hyer get from Apple support for combination keys for some reset, etc. I know that Tom, but at all Apple Support need to post artice about this specific case, and to publish it and make it accesible to all of us, not all of us live in USA to be able call Apple support, cause in my case, Apple support in my country is horrible, immediately when i contacted them they asked only for money, didn't try to suggest me some alternative solution, than replacing keyboard, even it's too expensive!
I will then shut down and make one more chime and you can let go. I held Command + Option + P with one hand and then after I hit power I added the R. Then power it back on and hurry and hold Command + Option + P + R. Unplug for 30 sec, and everything attached. So I called apple support and they gave me the magical key to fix this. Then i did it and double check that i did it right and still didn't fix it. Then I tried to change the keyboard shortcuts in the same window - spotlight (on left), unclick the show spotlight search field and the other one bellow. And the system preferences stuff - system preferences - language & text - input sources.
#WEIRD CHARACTERS AT SIGN IN FOR CHROME MAC WINDOWS#
Mine was typing in crazy symbols ( åß∂ƒ©).Īlso I could not Command + Tab (shoot me), and when I clicked on a window in another app it hid the windows I was working in. I just spent hour trying to fix tihs on my iMac and could find the answer so I wanted to post it for someone else.
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