Im totally stumped on this one

[PCSolutions]

I cannot figure this one out to save my soul!
Heres what we got
My neighbor who is a client of mine had a failing hard drive and an extremely weird situation that occured in Outlook Express only
I would swear it cant be if I didnt see this one myself!
If you bring up Outlook Express and address an email that starts with the letter J as the first character nothing appears as text but the cursor moves. You type the rest as if the letter J was there and it works fine. It emails correclty

Now this gets weirder
I replaced his hard drive due to bad sectors. I reloaded it myself. Clean load the way I always do it for everyone including myself. Its clean Windows 98SE. IE 5.5
I thought keyboard.
Wrong
Replaced it
ONLY the J key does not show up in Outlook Expresss and ONLY as the first character when you type an email address. every other character it works fine
Further if you continue on and type the remaining emial address it works

I replaced the hard drive and loaded clean like I said .Clean load new hard drive. Windows & IE 5.5
I replaced the keyboard

What the hell?
Two keyboards do the same thing. Clean Windows. ONLY the letter J does that if it is the first character of an email address.
I just formatted this. Its clean Windows,

Comuputers are logical, Theres always a reason but this has me thoroughly stumped!
Two hard drive versions of Windows, Two keyboards doing exacly the same thing

Im stumped!

Ahhh Eureak says the blind man maybe! The difference betweed this and every other setup I have done is that I have the Global IME character set installed!

I answered my own qestion by thinking it through. The Global IME is doing that!

Thanks for all the help! It helps to think this thorugh!

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[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 03-24-2001).]

[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 03-24-2001).]

[HowdyBubba]

I like your other trivia questions better!

Anyway, does it make a difference if the e-mail is typed in plain-text only as opposed to HTML? Also does it matter if it's capitalized or lowercase?

OE may be interpreting the "J" as a control character or an HTML command somehow. Or it may be triggering some strange bug in the draw/redraw of his video drivers - if you are using the same driver. Does color depth/resolution matter to the problem?

bubba

Just noticed that the character set was at fault - nevermind my questions.

glad it's fixed

[This message has been edited by HowdyBubba (edited 03-24-2001).]

[maxximilian]

For a minute there, it looked like you had stumbled onto a new Easter Egg...LOL

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[PCSolutions]

This wasnt a trivia question!
I thinked I could I thinked I could figure it!
With the global IME installed the J character does not work as the forst character as an email address
I dont know why

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Keep it simple!

[Steve R Jones]

Let us know if we can help you again Ya'll come back now, ya here

[KatMac]

LOL
That's what I like about this place, the comraderie This one was so concise and easy to follow, I've saved it in my "What To Do If You Ever Lose Your J" folder.



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