On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:55 -0500, Ed Skladany wrote: > When I type a single-quote (apostrophe) character when composing mail, > the first key press gives me nothing, then pressing it again gives me > an acute accent character, like this �. The double-key press makes > it seem like I�m in some sort of character composing mode without > wanting to be. > > I�ve checked my language settings in Evolution and KDE, and checked my > keyboard type. I�m set to American English for all with UTF-8 > character encoding. In fact, as soon as I type the word with the > acute in it, the spell checker wants to fix it, and does it properly > (replaces it to a word with an apostrophe). Note that there are two > offending words in this paragraph. > > I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard and am running an up-to-date > Fedora Core 3 on i686, KDE 3.3 and Evolution 2.0.2. > > If anyone can help, please let me know.
The problem may be that you are in Evil HTML Mode: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 In text mode, single-quotes are just that: plain old ASCII. Here are some examples: '''''''''''''''''''' -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage the plane." RICHARD REID, tried to blow up American Airlines Flight 63
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