Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.

[Shridhar Sahukar]

I found that I had selected keyboard format as "US International". 
Things are working fine when I change it back to "US English" layout.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Shridhar

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> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:45:13 -0700
> From: "Shridhar Sahukar" <ssahukar at openclovis.com>
> Subject: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
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> Hello,
>
> I have installed FC6 on my Compaq nx6110 laptop. I was earlier using 
> RHEL4 and there was no issue at all.
> With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters 
> like " (double quote), ' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc. 
> These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press 
> <space key> following these characters, then they appear.
> I had enabled some regional languages during installation, which had 
> installed some package called "SCIM". I suspected the problem with the 
> package and uninstalled it, but it didnt help.
>
> Has anyone come across the same problem? Is there any known issue?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Shridhar
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:24:53 +0200
> From: Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
> To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com
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> Shridhar Sahukar schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007:
>
>   
>> With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters
>> like " (double quote), ' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc.
>> These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press
>> <space key> following these characters, then they appear.
>>     
>
> Sounds like "dead keys" are active. With "dead keys" you are able to type 
> characters like n~ or e'.
>
> Where do you have this problems? KDE? Gnome? Or on the console? Both KDE 
> and Gnome have their own keyboard managers which are responsible for the 
> layouts. If you expect those troubles on the console, use 
> system-config-keyboard to change the keyboard layout and deactivate the 
> dead keys.
>
>