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[PLUG] deadkeys
Jeff's email on accented characters reminded me of this problem. When I
installed this distro, I decided to use the deadkeys keyboard option
since I could never get linux to use the alt+(ansi code on num pad) that
works for me in windows and was supposed to work in Linux also. (I use
the em dash, alt+0151, and the section mark, alt+0168, a lot. Deadkeys
don't help with this anyway. I also use é, alt+0233, which -- as you
can see -- deadkeys does well.)
Well, it turns out that I use single ' and double ¨ quotes more than I
use the accented characters made easier with deadkeys, and it is getting
to be a pain -- especially switching from this computer to others that
don't require tricks to enter tildes and quotes. Another problem is
that the double quotes entered by <shift+quote, space> (¨) aren't
recognized as ascii quotes by some programs, and OpenOffice's pub quotes
features is so incompatible that I can't enter double quotes at all in
my word processing -- have to use two single quotes -- unacceptable.
Problem is, I can't figure out how to turn them off.
Machine is Red Hat 7.3. Anyone have any ideas?
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