More info, this appears to be a 'feature' for languages with accents. And it is MUCH more pervasive than I thought. For instance ü is produced by pressing the ¨ followed by u and é is produced by pressing ' followed by e. È is produced with ` followed by E.
On more investigation: I have cured my problem. But I am not impressed with how. It appears that the layout selection is very confusing. See the picture supplied with what appears to be the only obvious selection. ** Attachment added: "international layout (with dead keys)" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6996563/sc0.png -- [feisty] gnome-terminal emits wrong character for quote on GB keyboard https://launchpad.net/bugs/96921 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
