HI All.
I had to go visit a site yesterday as they had a strange error.
When I got there the had something like "abcd"" note the 2 dbl quotes at the end.
I thought, ah theres the problem.
I took the quotes out, saved the data, but when I went to put them back in, I did Shift ' and nothing happend so I did it again and got "" !
did it again, same thing.
Someone said they have seen this in Windows 2K before, but dont know how to fix it.
Anyone else seen this and know how to turn it off??
It sounds like the text services input language feature. Several non-english languages use commonly accented characters, and this can be done in several ways.
The most common is to use certain key sequences - such as Shift+' for umlauts. So when you type a double-quote, it queues it and waits for the next keypress. If that happens to be a character that can be accented appropriately, it emits a single character. If not, it emits the double quote and whatever other character you typed... in this case another double quote.
Long story short... check out the input language settings in the control panel. On XP you can find it in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, "Languages" tab, "Text services and input languages". Should be something similar in Win2K.
I don't know if it's possible to switch this off for specific cases in the VCL. You might try fooling with the ImeMode in your edit controls, but more likely you'll have to do something with the text services API. I'm guessing it'd be easier to tell the client to switch their text input language back to English. If they don't want to (and they may have reasons), then it's up to them to deal with the problems it causes.
Incidentally, I did some transcription work from Maori earlier this year. We found a Maori input translation which used the ~ as an accent for putting macrons over vowels. We just switched input languages as necessary.
-- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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