[ubuntu-uk] missing apostrophe and quotes

Pete Stean peteste at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 9 16:23:09 BST 2007


You might also want to check that in your language options you have En-gb as
default. For some reason, even when I'd selected my location as London
during install on Feisty, my default language was American...

Pete


On 09/08/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:11:09PM +0100, michaelweaver wrote:
> > I think I am having problems with writing Apostrophe and Quotes when
> > text editing or writing emails.
> > I think it might be that my keyboard is trying to assign Non English
> > characters so I cannot type anything that contains an Apostrophe or
> > Quotes.
>
> I had this in the past. It turned out to be the keyboard layout. If you go
> to the keyboard layout thing in preferences and make sure you choose the
> "top level" United Kingdom entry, don't be tempted by any of the further
> options below "dead keys, dvorak etc".
>
> This fixed it for me.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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