Apostrophe confusing me

[Kevin Stange]

Helen McCall wrote:
> I've installed the latest pidgin on two xp home computers and one xp 
> professional.  On the professional I can't type the apostrophe key (') 
> in messages - absolutely nothing happens.  If I press the key twice in 
> quick succession I get this ´ which isn't the same key, not sure what it 
> is, but the spell checker doesn't like it, doesn't consider it an 
> apostrophe.  As I change between computers it's annoying me.  Can anyone 
> give me any ideas what the problem might be?  I'm using an ASUS notebook. 
> Thanks

This sounds like the keyboard input method for accents on keyboard 
layouts like Spanish, French, etc.  You may want to double check that 
your keyboard layout (via the Keyboard settings in Windows) is set to 
the proper English layout for your locality.

Kevin

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