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Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Stas Kolenikov
> Sent: 27 July 2004 23:22
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: keyboard behavior
>
>
> Nick,
>
> I am sorry that me English is not that guud...
I am part-Welsh so we share a foreign language here.
I kind of
> believed "typing"
> meant "I was entering a command in the Command window".
Data editor, do-file editor, dialog boxes, ...
> And
> of course the
> Results window won't be inventing anything that the Command
> line was not
> supplying.
Shouldn't be.
>
> The font was MS Sans Serif with Cyrillic script (the only option
> available). The behavior did not change when I switched to
> FixedSys... and
> the font did not change, either, by the way!!!
>
> I figured out the problem might be coming from the MS Word
> that was also
> running separately in another window. For some reason, MS Win
> XP decided
> to do me a great favor, and started replacing the quotes in every
> application it could. It cannot replace it in the terminal window with
> pine mail program running in it, where I am typing... if you
> know what I
> mean... this message now. It does in Stata, or the Do-Editor.
>
> I think I was coming across something related when I was not
> able to enter
> a very natural stuff like `a' either into Stata, or into my editor
> (WinEdt), or into both. The `a part was replaced into "a"
> with a grave...
> à, if that can be rendered in the HTML formatting mail
> programs. I
> think I had to type, symbol-by-symbol, `-a- -' with a space
> in the middle
> to let Windows know that I want that part to be entered without the
> accent. That's all so insane.
>
> Anyway, the magic of getting the nice quotes disappeared once
> I restarted
> Stata. Good for me that I did not have a 200Mb dataset with
> 15 estimation
> results in memory.
Bizarre story. Will be interesting (if scary) if it recurs.
>
> > I don't think anyone knows who to blame
> > without more information. Is this
> > happening in the Command window, the
> > Results window, or where? What fonts
> > are you trying to use in what windows?
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@d...
> >
> > Stas Kolenikov
> >
> > > as I was typing something like
> > >
> > > if <a string variable> ~= ""
> > >
> > > the first quote sign became a nice ``, and the second one
> was changed
> > > into equally nice pair of closing ''. Guess Stata liked it? Hm.
> > > Negative. Do I blame Microsoft, or do I blame Stata, and
> how do I turn
> > > this off? I am using XP Home Edition, if that matters (I
> got around by
> > > switching to Russian keyboard layout, but I am not sure
> everybody on
> > > the list have this luxury.)
> > >
> > > Stata/SE 8.2 for Windows
> > > Born 23 Jul 2004
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