Keyboard quote marks

[Guest Ed Meza]

When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double quotes, I

have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them. When doing so,

it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also twice for single quotes:

''

 

How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard & didn't find

a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII characters in Spanish.

Thanks,

Ed

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

Sounds to me as if you have problems with your keyboard. Getting two

characters when I hit a key twice is what I would expect. Check that you

don't have debris obstructing/under some of the keys. Perhaps turn the

keyboard over and give it a shake or tap.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

Ed Meza <tony_nospam24@q.com> wrote:

> When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double

> quotes, I have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them.

> When doing so, it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also

> twice for single quotes: ''

>

> How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard &

> didn't find a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII

> characters in Spanish. Thanks,

> Ed

[Guest Ed Meza]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

Shook & tapped it. Some debris came off, yet the problem remains. Was

looking at Google before posting this issue and there appears to be reasons

while people try to do away with quotes. Could not find how to get it back

to normal operation.

Appreciate your response & will keep looking.

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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> Sounds to me as if you have problems with your keyboard. Getting two

> characters when I hit a key twice is what I would expect. Check that you

> don't have debris obstructing/under some of the keys. Perhaps turn the

> keyboard over and give it a shake or tap.

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>

>

> Ed Meza <tony_nospam24@q.com> wrote:

>

> > When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double

> > quotes, I have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them.

> > When doing so, it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also

> > twice for single quotes: ''

> >

> > How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard &

> > didn't find a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII

> > characters in Spanish. Thanks,

> > Ed

>

[Guest John John]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

I don't have an ME box to check this but I think what you are

experiencing can happen if you are using the International Keyboard with

certain languages. The purpose of the "feature" is to allow to type

accents, carets, etc. Check the keyboard settings.

 

John

 

Ed Meza wrote:

> When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double quotes, I

> have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them. When doing so,

> it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also twice for single quotes:

> ''

>

> How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard & didn't find

> a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII characters in Spanish.

> Thanks,

> Ed

>

>

[Guest Ed Meza]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

You are right John, I just changed the keyboard setting from English

International to just plain English. Logged off, tried it and now

everything is working fine.

Thank you.

"John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message

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> I don't have an ME box to check this but I think what you are

> experiencing can happen if you are using the International Keyboard with

> certain languages. The purpose of the "feature" is to allow to type

> accents, carets, etc. Check the keyboard settings.

>

> John

>

> Ed Meza wrote:

>

> > When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double quotes, I

> > have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them. When doing

so,

> > it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also twice for single

quotes:

> > ''

> >

> > How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard & didn't

find

> > a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII characters in

Spanish.

> > Thanks,

> > Ed

> >

> >

>

[Guest John John]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

You're welcome.

 

John

 

Ed Meza wrote:

> You are right John, I just changed the keyboard setting from English

> International to just plain English. Logged off, tried it and now

> everything is working fine.

> Thank you.

> "John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message

> news:eoDmOXu$HHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>

>>I don't have an ME box to check this but I think what you are

>>experiencing can happen if you are using the International Keyboard with

>>certain languages. The purpose of the "feature" is to allow to type

>>accents, carets, etc. Check the keyboard settings.

>>

>>John

>>

>>Ed Meza wrote:

>>

>>

>>>When I wish to write a word(s) in quotes - be single or double quotes, I

>>>have to hold the shift key & hit twice for either of them. When doing

>

> so,

>

>>>it shows *twice* "" for open & close quotes & also twice for single

>

> quotes:

>

>>>''

>>>

>>>How can be this be fixed. Looked at Control Panel | keyboard & didn't

>

> find

>

>>>a solution. Problem occurred when I installed ASCII characters in

>

> Spanish.

>

>>>Thanks,

>>>Ed

>>>

>>>

>>

>

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

I see that JJ has now provided you with the answer. If you switch back to

the International Keyboard and instead of typing "" you type "e I think

you will find that you get an e with an umlaut over it (ë). Similarly

typing a ' followed by an e, that is 'e will give you an e with an acute

accent (é) . In other words the keyboard driver pauses when certain

characters are typed and depending on the character that follows either

"builds" an accented character or, if the second character isn't one of

the character pairs that do this, then prints both the characters.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

Ed Meza <tony_nospam24@q.com> wrote:

> Shook & tapped it. Some debris came off, yet the problem remains.

> Was looking at Google before posting this issue and there appears to

> be reasons while people try to do away with quotes. Could not find

> how to get it back to normal operation.

> Appreciate your response & will keep looking.

[Guest Ed Meza]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

Mike, you are correct about the special characters. However, I prefer to

use the ASCII Spanish & French characters using the ALT key followed by

their corresponding numbers, i.e., ALT 164 = ñ ... ALT 168 = ¿

ALT 130 = é...and so on.

Thank you.

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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> I see that JJ has now provided you with the answer. If you switch back to

> the International Keyboard and instead of typing "" you type "e I think

> you will find that you get an e with an umlaut over it (ë). Similarly

> typing a ' followed by an e, that is 'e will give you an e with an acute

> accent (é) . In other words the keyboard driver pauses when certain

> characters are typed and depending on the character that follows either

> "builds" an accented character or, if the second character isn't one of

> the character pairs that do this, then prints both the characters.

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>

>

> Ed Meza <tony_nospam24@q.com> wrote:

>

> > Shook & tapped it. Some debris came off, yet the problem remains.

> > Was looking at Google before posting this issue and there appears to

> > be reasons while people try to do away with quotes. Could not find

> > how to get it back to normal operation.

> > Appreciate your response & will keep looking.

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Keyboard quote marks

 

Ed Meza <tony_nospam24@q.com> wrote:

> Mike, you are correct about the special characters. However, I

> prefer to use the ASCII Spanish & French characters using the ALT key

> followed by their corresponding numbers, i.e., ALT 164 = ñ ... ALT

> 168 = ¿

> ALT 130 = é...and so on.

 

As do I which is why I never use the International English keyboard. I'm

not sure that what follows is true of the US keyboard driver but the right

hand Alt key with the UK keyboard driver is known as Alt Gr and can also

be used in combination with a letter to produce acute accents. Alt Gr has

much the same but not always identical effect as Alt+Ctrl where for

example Alt-Ctrl+e = é as does AltGr + e. Another is Alt Gr + 4 which on a

UK keyboard gives the Euro currency symbol €.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com