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I'm not using Mac keyboard however it did work properly before. I changed the Command key to my Ctrl-key. Until today, using this Ctrl key yield extremely odd characters. When pressing Ctrl-A yields å Ctrl-V yields √ Ctrl-C yields ç

And I have no idea where do these characters come from? So how could I fix this issue? Can anyone please help? Thanks.

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It looks like you have accidentally configured your control key to be your alt key. Case in point: when I press alt+a, I get å. alt+v returns √, and alt+c gives us ç. Go into your settings and check again. They are located in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys. Note: alt is also option.

Edit: I cannot duplicate this phenomena (see comments on this answer), so I will guess that the non-Apple keyboard is messing up the process somehow.

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Thanks a lot. However no matter what I change, it will never become the command key again since I turn on the Keyboard Viewer and I saw that every time I assign a different key to command, it becomes option :(. Really don't know what to do now? Any suggestion? – Chan Jan 11 '12 at 6:54
@Chan That is odd. Let me play around with mine and see if I can duplicate what's going on. – Mahnax Jan 11 '12 at 6:55
Many thanks for your help ;). I really appreciate that. – Chan Jan 11 '12 at 6:59
@Chan No problem! Couldn't reproduce, so I updated my answer. – Mahnax Jan 11 '12 at 7:01
Thanks anyway. I guess I have to buy a Mac keyboard then. But it's totally weird since I set command to no action before. The only thing I did before that was reboot the computer from the command line since it was freeze. Other that, I couldn't think of any reason that would cause this problem. – Chan Jan 11 '12 at 7:07

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