Weird Apostrophe Bug

[ObeseSquirrel]

For the last couple of days, I have been having a really weird bug in Mountain Lion.

When I hit the apostrophe key, the apostrophe is highlighted and then the very next letter I typed becomes a different variant of that letter. (The same variant that would be "1" if I had held the key down.)

So "it's" now shows up as itš"...

How do I fix this?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

For the last couple of days, I have been having a really weird bug in Mountain Lion.

When I hit the apostrophe key, the apostrophe is highlighted and then the very next letter I typed becomes a different variant of that letter. (The same variant that would be "1" if I had held the key down.)

So "it's" now shows up as itš"...

How do I fix this?

That is not the apostrophe key then, but a diacritical mark. What physical and software keyboard layout do you have?

 

[ObeseSquirrel]

I fixed the problem. My keyboard layout had been hidden from my dashboard, and after playing with the 'Language & Text' requirements for a while (I don't think I reenabled the Menubar icon) the flag reappeared. My settings had somehow been changed to Polish. I switched back to the American keyboard and it was fixed.

This behavior had only started today, and I have not been playing with my keyboard settings recently. Idk, 10.8.2 has been real buggy for me. Hopefully 10.8.3 will fix these problems...

Thanks, btw.

 

[ObeseSquirrel]

WTF! The keyboard settings changed by themselves again. It switched to Latvian! (It was actually Latvian both times.)

Is there anything I can look for in the Console for this? I'm a little worried I might have been hacked.

EDIT: I have Cmd-Spacebar set for Spotlight and Ctrl-Spacebar for switching keyboard layouts. Maybe I am hitting the wrong key by accident? This has only started recently though...