Strange quotation mark behaviour

[Guest]

I'm using XP Home with SP2 on my laptop (Acer Aspire 2010) and whenever i
type quotation marks, they don't appear until i type the next character. and
if this character happens to be a vowel , rather than, say, "u, I end up with
ü.

I am assuming this is some sort of special character shortcut setting, but I
cannot find how to turn it off.

Can anyone help?

 

[Malke]

I'm using XP Home with SP2 on my laptop (Acer Aspire 2010) and
whenever i
type quotation marks, they don't appear until i type the next
character. and if this character happens to be a vowel , rather than,
say, "u, I end up with ü.

I am assuming this is some sort of special character shortcut setting,
but I cannot find how to turn it off.

Can anyone help?

Make sure you've set the correct language in Regional and Language
Options in Control Panel.

Malke

 

[Ken Blake]

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I'm using XP Home with SP2 on my laptop (Acer Aspire 2010) and
whenever i type quotation marks, they don't appear until i type
the
next character. and if this character happens to be a vowel ,
rather
than, say, "u, I end up with ü.

I am assuming this is some sort of special character shortcut
setting, but I cannot find how to turn it off.

Yes, that's correct. 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.