Quotation Mark Problem

[Guest]

When I type a quotation mark(") in Office, Wordpad, Notepad, Outlook Express,
Internet Explorer etc. it doesn't appear until I type the next character.
Particularly annoying with closing quotation marks where you have to press
space bar twice, once to show the quotation mark then again to show the
space.

Also when I type the quotation mark followed by any vowel, two dots appear
over the letter eg. ö or ä. I am using English(Australia) as the region and
lanuage setting. I have seen this problem on other PC's and other versions of
Windows.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

When I type a quotation mark(") in Office, Wordpad, Notepad, Outlook Express,
Internet Explorer etc. it doesn't appear until I type the next character.
Particularly annoying with closing quotation marks where you have to press
space bar twice, once to show the quotation mark then again to show the
space.

Also when I type the quotation mark followed by any vowel, two dots appear
over the letter eg. ö or ä. I am using English(Australia) as the region and
lanuage setting. I have seen this problem on other PC's and other versions of
Windows.

Press the six control keys (left Alt, Ctrl, Shift, right Alt, Ctrl, Shift),
one at a time, and your keyboard will probably reset itself to its
normal mode of operation.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

When I type a quotation mark(") in Office, Wordpad, Notepad,
Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer etc. it doesn't appear until I type
the
next character. Particularly annoying with closing quotation
marks
where you have to press space bar twice, once to show the
quotation
mark then again to show the space.

Also when I type the quotation mark followed by any vowel, two
dots
appear over the letter eg. ö or ä. I am using
English(Australia) as
the region and lanuage setting. I have seen this problem on
other
PC's and other versions of Windows.

You're using the US-International keyboard layout, which is
provided to facilitate typing special characters like ä. This can
be turned off in Control Panel | Regional and Language Options |
Languages | Details | Settings.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Ken, that fixed the problem. Much appreciated.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Thank you Ken, that fixed the problem. Much appreciated.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

 

[Freeman]

My question is below...

In


You're welcome. Glad to help.

Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use the
right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like the
quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard) layout.
How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of the
quotation marks?

Thanks
Freeman

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use
the
right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like
the
quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard)
layout.
How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of
the
quotation marks?

Thanks
Freeman

Use the Microsoft keyboard remapper so that Alt+; generates ö, Alt+' does ä
and Alt+[ does ü. You can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My question is below...

You replied to a message I sent on June 15, 2005--4.5 years ago?

Please don't do that in the future. If you have a new question, start
it in a new thread, don't reply to an old message.

But my answer is below.

Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use the
right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like the
quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard) layout.
How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of the
quotation marks?

I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me, in all applications, type many common special
characters (many of these are used in other languages) by pressing the
ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

I think this is much better than the "United States-International"
keyboard layout.