perhaps he's copying and pasting characters fromn the character map?
Or perhaps since he's said in a different thread that he's building a computer perhaps he's not yet bought the keyboard for his new machine, yet still has a fully working computer on his older machine that he is usng when he comes on here.
I wouldn't recomend the MS natural jeyboards since these might no be so natural to play games on due to the odd key arrangements.
I guess any keyboard will do. Don't get a really cheap on or else you may not be able to press enough keys.
The keyboard I'm using now will let me press upto four keys at once, a fifth stops it from doing anything.
so you couldn't. Crouch, run, turn, shoot and strath.