I suspect a KDE bug. I have exactly the same setup apart from using a different physical keyboard (but still with a US layout) and have KDE configured with two alternates: US and US International (which uses dead-keys). However right now I have US selected and am still getting the dead-key behaviour.
It doesn't bother me too much as I almost always *want* the dead-keys (I write in Spanish a lot), but it's still a bug IMHO. Note that you can get an apostrophe rather than an accent by hitting single-quote+space. My fingers do this by muscle-memory (I have an apostrophe in my surname :-) On a related note, I haven't found any way to type Ctrl-` (control- backquote), the accelerator for Preview Pane in Evo. Hints would be appreciated. poc 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. > > Thanks, > Ed > > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
