Something weird is happening when typing in AutoCad 2015. @ symbol becomes "

[thisisme19]

Hey guys,

I have something weird happening when typing, sometimes when I try and type a symbol the character that comes up in CAD isn't the same as what I want to type. For instance, I hit ctrl+2 for the @ symbol but in my text window in CAD it comes out as ".

Has anyone run into this at any point, I'm assuming it's some sort of setting that I accidentially switched. (I tend to input keyboard commands too quickly sometimes, so I frequently have commands that I didn't intend on using pop up. So I'm guessing that at some point I changed a setting I didn't notice)

If I close out of CAD and open again everything is back to normal.

-G

[nestly2]

You wrote "ctrl+2", but I'll assume you meant shift+2 for the @  symbol.  

My first guess is that it's a keyboard/keyboard mapping issue.  I'd change keyboards if possible, and/or install fresh batteries if it's wireless.

[thisisme19]

I did indeed mean shift+2, not ctrl.

I don't think it's the keyboard, it's only a couple months old and it never did this with 2014. Also it only happens in CAD, all the symbols come up normal in any other program.

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

It happened before but I don't remember what caused it.

I think if you use CTRL+Shift or CTRL+Shift twice then it goes back to normal inside autocad.

[Yorx57]

Funny thing is this used to happen to me also.  Come into work in the morning and everything would be fine - by noon, I would be getting what I call a keyboard remapping - it would eventually get worse until I shut down AutoCAD and relaunched - then the whole scenerio would repeat.  I did suspect the keyboard at first - so one day when AutoCAD decided to see different keys I launched notepad (kept AutoCAD running) and hit the same keys - no problems, notpad was showing the correct characters.  Unfortunately, I never did track down the cause, I ended up with an updated system and of course a different keyboard.  I've never had the problem since.  The only thing I can think of (in my case) was there was something strange happening between my keyboard driver and AutoCAD - no other software was ever affected.

[doben · Accepted solution]

It's probably the language setting being inadvertently switched. It's happened to me a few times in the past. The icon should be at the bottom right of your screen (please see attached). 

[thisisme19]

That was the issue! Thanks. Seems that when you hit shift+ctrl twice (like someone mentioned above) it changes that setting. Thanks for the help!