Re: single and double quote marks not displayed until after another character typed

From: Jak (google_at_grimmfamily.cjb.net)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: 26 Apr 2004 18:20:40 -0700

google@grimmfamily.cjb.net (Jak) wrote in message news:<2e995f77.0404252316.7d711834@posting.google.com>...
> On my laptop running XP Home, the single quote ' and double quote " do
> not display until after another character has been typed. This occurs
> in all programs, which leads me to suspect that it is some sort of
> operating system error. I have not been able to find anything to allow
> me to change this functionality.
>
> I want the single quote ' and double quote " to display without having
> to press another key (such as <space>). Can anyone please help me?

I found the solution by working through each of the control panels. It
turns out that my keyboard setting was set to "English (United States)
- United States - International". I have removed this definition now,
and have set the keyboard setting to "English (Australia) - US" and
the single quote ' and double quote " are performing how I expect them
to.

>From another posting:
> Seems this has to do with using the US-International
> Keyboard layout which allows you to create international
> characters using two keystrokes. For characters like
> apostrophe and quote, it waits for a second keypress
> before deciding what to do. If the second character can be
> accented by the first, then the accented character
> appears, otherwise they appear as two seperate characters.
>
> The solution is to use a different keyboard layout.
>
> (For a full explanation, see see KB article 306560).

To clear it yourself - sorry it is so cryptic:
Regional and Language Options control panel
Languages tab
Text services box - click on Details button
Opens a panel called Text Service and Input Languages
Settings tab
Set Default Input Language to "English (United States) - US"
and I suggest that you Remove "English (United States) - United States
- International" like I have if you don't want this to happen again.

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