[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 13:36, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am finding that I cannot use apostrophes and inverted commas.  For
> example as I type:
>
> I called Stephen (I pressed  the keys for the abbreviate version of I am).
>
> Another example:
>
> Stephen said: hiver my timbers
>
> (That was Shiver my timbers! in quote marks)
>
> If I hit the key twice, I get something that looks a bit like the right
> character: ¨ and ´
>
> Xev indicates the correct code:
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
>      root 0x5d, subw 0x0, time 2928437777, (89,-9), root:(854,177),
>      state 0x1, keycode 11 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen
> YES,
>      XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a8) "¨"
>      XFilterEvent returns: False
> KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
>      root 0x5d, subw 0x0, time 2928686574, (200,235), root:(225,377),
>      state 0x0, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
>      XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 b4) "´"
>      XFilterEvent returns: False
>
> Any ideas? I am using Centos 5.1.
>
> S.
>
> PS I just found out if I hit space after the intended character it seems
> to work viz:
>
> I'm using Centos 5.1
>
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The keyboard locale is set to one which uses accented characters. If you
press quote followed by an e, you will see ê for example.

You need to find where the keyboard locale is set, and set it UK or US.

Gabriel.



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