[Cialug] HP Probook 4520s Keyboard

[jim kraai]

Non-English

On Aug 23, 2016 10:57 AM, "Todd Pierce" <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would dead keys actually make the quote and apostrophe be completely
> different characters (look the same but not acceptable to a compiler)?  If
> I type He´s normally I get Heś.  Basically, the apostrophe gives me an
> accent mark over the following character (unless I hit it twice).
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <
> jakllsch at kollasch.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:43:19AM -0500, Todd Pierce wrote:
> > > My tilde key requires hitting it twice.  The single quote and double
> > quote
> > > both require a double strike too but then come up with a non-ascii
> > version
> > > of the same character (I know this because the lisp interpreter doesn´t
> > > understand the quote chars).  The only function I tried was print
> screen
> > > which did actually work, come to think of it.  Num-lock and keypad work
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > So, I´m really not too bad off, it´s just a bit weird, and well,
> > ultimately
> > > the machine is for programming, which depends on quotes and a tilde.
> > >
> > > -T
> > >
> >
> > Sounds like you've got 'dead keys' enabled.
> >
> >         Jonathan Kollasch
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