Problem with special characters

[Donny the Punk]

Every time I try to write in French using accented characters such as 'é', pressing the appropriate numpad code (in this case alt-130) redirects the forum to another page instead of producing the desired letter. This hasn't happened to me on other forums, nor on any other page as far as I can tell. Can this be fixed?

[Ahknaton]

Every time I try to write in French using accented characters such as 'é', pressing the appropriate numpad code (in this case alt-130) redirects the forum to another page instead of producing the desired letter. This hasn't happened to me on other forums, nor on any other page as far as I can tell. Can this be fixed?
I'm not sure if this will be any help but I've typed é before using alt-0233 (note the leading zero) instead of alt-130 and never had any problems.

Apparently there are 2 sets of keycode mappings.

[Donny the Punk]

Hmm... it's still redirecting me. Maybe it's a problem on my end? Does anyone know? :confused:

[Donny the Punk]

Aha, turning off numlock seems to prevent it from doing that when I type the shorter codes for é, ç, è, â, etc. but not for the longer ones, such as alt-0224. On the other hand, having numlock on seems to allow the longer ones such as à. :p How weird/annoying. Is this exclusively a problem on my end or does the forum have something to do with it?

[Ahknaton]

Hmm... it's still redirecting me. Maybe it's a problem on my end? Does anyone know? :confused:
Do you have NumLock off on your numeric keypad?

Perhaps you are triggering one of your browser's keyboard shortcuts when you hold alt and type the code.

Edit: I see you tried turning on NumLock while I was typing my reponse.