LC, Yosemite, and keyboards

[Jacques Hausser]

I recently moved to Yosemite. And yesterday I did accidentally change my keyboard from Swiss-French to American without noticing (probably pressing together option-control-space) when working with LC. It was I tried to put an option-char in the label box of a button inspector. After that, the American keyboard was selected each time I was in the inspector, but reversed to the Swiss-French one when the focus was in the other LC windows (stack window, application browser, message…). 

After a long time scratching my head and pulling out my hairs, I discovered a check-box in the system prefs > keyboard > input source, labelled “automatically switch to a document input source”. It is visible, I read, only when you have several languages selected. If it is the case (and if you are a careless typist), each LC window can finish with its own keyboard setting.

In conclusion, to avoid to type “Zes” instead of “Yes”, better to uncheck this option…

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Prof. Jacques Hausser
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Biophore / Sorge
University of Lausanne
CH 1015 Lausanne
please use my private address:
6 route de Burtigny
CH-1269 Bassins
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E-Mail:	jacques.hausser at unil.ch
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