Keyboard & Keyboard viewer not working properly

Hi,

I've experienced problems for the past few months:


1. keyboard viewer:

I always keep showing keyboard viewer & the accessibility keyboard enabled (minimized). But when the screen is locked, the keyboard viewer disappeared. When I logged in again, I checked the settings which shows that the keyboard viewer and accessibility keyboard should be showing, but they don't. What's going on?


2. Keyboard:

(a) Chinese input problem: When I do Chinese typing (Canjie - traditional Chinese), it sometimes turns into a combination of English characters and strange Chinese characters.


e.g.I type "今"(In Chinese input: o i n spacebar--spacebar acts as enter), it turns out showing "伐n" where "伐" in Chinese input is "o i".


Then I have to switch back to English input and to Chinese input again. This seems to be a quick fix. Sometimes that don't fix, then I have to type slowly.

It is extremely annoying.


(b) Capitalization in strange positions: When I type in English, sometimes a word will be capitalized randomly. I have already disabled most of the keyboard shortcuts.



I experienced the same problems both in Mac Mini (M1) and MacBook Pro (2012). [I paired the Mac Mini with a Logitec K580 keyboard]

My old MacBook worked perfectly fine until recent updates, maybe several months or a year or so.

Mac mini (M1, 2020)

Posted on Mar 7, 2023 10:54 PM

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Mar 8, 2023 4:54 AM in response to pat_hk

pat_hk wrote:


2. Keyboard: (a) Chinese input problem: When I do Chinese typing (Canjie - traditional Chinese), it sometimes turns into a combination of English characters and strange Chinese characters.

Have you seen any other reports of problems with Canjie? If you are able to use any other of the Chinese IM's, do they work ok?


https://support.apple.com/guide/chinese-input-method/welcome/mac





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