'key not working

[Michael Bourbon]

For some reason it was stuck on US International settings, but ONLY in
Pidgin. I just wound up uninstalling those settings and it started
working.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:55 AM, David Woolley
<forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> Michael Bourbon wrote:
>>
>> For some reason in Pidgin and ONLY in Pidgin the 'and " keys aren't
>> working.
>> All it will do is make an accent mark over the following letter if
>> it's an appropriate
>> letter for an accent mark.
>> I've uninstalled and reinstalled Pidgin a few times, even got rid of
>> all the registry stuff
>> and the .purple folder and it still won't work.
>> I really love Pidgin and have to use Trillian for now.
>> Does anyone know a solution to this problem?
>
> I seem to remember that this is a problem with the GTK+ library, which
> handles the details of of the GUI.  Note that ' and " are not dead keys on
> UK and UK keyboards, so it would also help to know which keyboard definition
> you are using in the OS (and the OS and the version of Pidgin).
>
>
>
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> David Woolley
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