SendInput problem sending the letter Y

[Andrea]

Hi

I've having a very strange problem using the SendInput API to send
text to other applications.
I've written the code and it seems to work well. I discovered a
strange problem: when I try to send the Y character to another
application, I got the following characters:

Y)

So a round bracket is added.
Here's the code I use. (I took inspiration from a post on MSDN by Paul
DiLascia)
Another thing I noticed: the problem happens only when I'm sending the
data to another application: if I'm sending text inside the same
application, it works fine.

If you like, I can send you a sample VS.NET solution.

Thanks.
Andrea

/// <summary>
/// Prepares the text to send
/// </summary>
/// <param name="data">The data.</param>
/// <param name="word">wor d to send</param>
public static void PrepareText (ref ArrayList data,
string word) {

INPUT inp;
inp = new INPUT();

inp.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
char[] character = word.ToCharArra y();

for (int cont=0; cont < character.Lengt h;
cont++) {

char c = character[cont];

//fixes double new line problem
ushort val = (ushort) c;

inp.ki.wScan = val;
inp.ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_UNICO DE; //
to avoid shift, etc.
data.Add(inp);
}
}
public static INPUT[] GetInputFromArr ay (ArrayList
data) {

INPUT[] keys =
(INPUT[])data.ToArray(t ypeof(INPUT));
return keys;
}

/// <summary>
/// Sends the keystrokes to the target applications.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="keys">The data.</param>
public static void SendKeystrokes (INPUT[] keys) {

if (keys==null) {
return;
}

int length = keys.Length;

if (length==0) {
return;
}

INPUT inp;
inp = new INPUT();

uint intReturn = SendInput((uint )length, ref
keys[0], Marshal.SizeOf( inp));

}