single and double quote marks not displayed until after another character typed

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On my laptop running XP Home, the single quote ' and double quote " do
not display until after another character has been typed. This occurs
in all programs, which leads me to suspect that it is some sort of
operating system error. I have not been able to find anything to allow
me to change this functionality.

I want the single quote ' and double quote " to display without having
to press another key (such as <space>). Can anyone please help me?
 
On my laptop running XP Home, the single quote ' and double quote " do
not display until after another character has been typed. This occurs
in all programs, which leads me to suspect that it is some sort of
operating system error. I have not been able to find anything to allow
me to change this functionality.

I want the single quote ' and double quote " to display without having
to press another key (such as <space>). Can anyone please help me?
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I found the solution by working through each of the control panels. It
turns out that my keyboard setting was set to "English (United States)
- United States - International". I have removed this definition now,
and have set the keyboard setting to "English (Australia) - US" and
the single quote ' and double quote " are performing how I expect them
to.

From another posting:
Seems this has to do with using the US-International
Keyboard layout which allows you to create international
characters using two keystrokes. For characters like
apostrophe and quote, it waits for a second keypress
before deciding what to do. If the second character can be
accented by the first, then the accented character
appears, otherwise they appear as two seperate characters.

The solution is to use a different keyboard layout.

(For a full explanation, see see KB article 306560).
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To clear it yourself - sorry it is so cryptic:
Regional and Language Options control panel
Languages tab
Text services box - click on Details button
Opens a panel called Text Service and Input Languages
Settings tab
Set Default Input Language to "English (United States) - US"
and I suggest that you Remove "English (United States) - United States
- International" like I have if you don't want this to happen again.
 
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