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Keyboard layout wrong when trying combinations with Shift key
Hey guys,
So my brother recently got a new laptop (Acer Aspire V Nitro, 17'') and everything was working fine until yesterday, while he was typing and suddenly couldn't use AltGr+2 to get an @-symbol. We looked into the layout settings, everything fine (It's still set to Swiss German layout). So I tried some keys out to check if that's correct. The layout was correct at first: still qwertz, the ö, ü, and ä all still there as well. BUT as soon as I tried combining Shift and numbers, we got a lot of weird results. Instead of +, ", *, ç, %, &, /, (, ), = for Shift+1-0, we got completely different symbols. When trying with AltGr, similar things happened. Normally we'd get ¦ @ # ° § ¬ | ¢ for AltGr+1-8, but it changed it to a lot of other, weird symbols.
Eventually we found out that AltGr+q gets us the @-symbol. Oddly enough, though, the €-symbol, which is, on the Swiss keyboard layout, AltGr+e, still works fine.
I have the feeling that the layout for Shift and AltGr combinations is for some reason the one of another layout, maybe the German one, I don't know. I think this might a software problem, and it's weird because 2 days ago, the @ combination worked just fine. Or my brother might've accidentally hit some random key combination while gaming that triggers this - but it's very weird that this is even possible.
Has anyone ever experienced or heard of this problem, and is there a fix that we can do manually?
Thanks :)