Physical keyboard inputs wrong characters on Android Emulator

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I have been using the physical keyboard on the Android Emulator for a while, but now something is wrong and I get strange symbols when I press any character; it does not matter which keyboard (en/es/fr) is displayed on the screen. Does anyone know why this is happening?

If start a new emulator, everything comes back to normal for a while... — Felipe Diaz, Jul 25 '18 at 22:13

score 91 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '19 at 14:32

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For mac

Move your cursor to end.
Use Option + Shft + Left arrow key to select whole text.
Press backspace to delete it and it will automatically switch back to normal english characters.

answered Dec 17 '19 at 14:32

Dushyant Singh

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This worked for me, but does anyone know how or why this works, or how or why this is even happening? – Carson Moore Mar 14 '20 at 18:47
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What the hell was that? :D Why it's event got that way? – Sepehr Behroozi Apr 23 '20 at 17:09
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Quite possiblly the most ridiculous thing i've seen in the past few weeks. Bravo! – Lee Brindley Jun 10 '20 at 11:15
I second that. The physical keyboard was typing hieroglyphs, the backspace wasn't working but now it is. – Ljupce Anastasov Apr 27 '21 at 07:27
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you dropped this ` ` – Aayush Shah Jul 18 '21 at 15:43
thanks for the solution, is there a name to this bizarre phenomena? not sure if this was designed to support localization and other languages but strange indeed. – Vijay Sep 16 '21 at 14:16

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '19 at 12:06

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Try using this shift+alt+o. This helped me solve the issue.

answered Sep 09 '19 at 12:06

Himesh Kumar

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For me various combinations of SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and O worked. – PJ_Finnegan Sep 11 '19 at 14:47
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tried on mac, option + shift + o, does not work. What's the mac version of this? – Tenten Ponce Oct 29 '19 at 05:42
restarting the emulator fixes the problem for me – Jagan Feb 19 '20 at 08:32

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 02:29

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Cold starting the emulator fixed things for me.

answered Mar 02 '19 at 02:29

Phil

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the above "shift+alt+o" can't work for me, but a cold start can back to normal! – superuser Oct 03 '19 at 02:30

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '18 at 13:45

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At the end, I uninstalled and installed the emulator again, and now it works fine. I think that should be there another solution, but so far it's the only thing that keep the keyboard working normally.

answered Jul 31 '18 at 13:45

Felipe Diaz

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 09 '19 at 13:39

I was using the accepted answer but using a special shortcut every time was getting annoying. So I poked around a bit and found the permanent solution. Go to the settings on the android emulator keyboard. (You can long press the , character on the Gboard.) Once there, go to Advanced and disable Emoji with the physical keyboard. Cold boot and you should be good to go.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 20 '19 at 15:11

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Another solution would be to disable the soft keyboard from bottom down icon.

answered Nov 20 '19 at 15:11

Anindya Manna

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Physical keyboard inputs wrong characters on Android Emulator

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