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    Keyboard Problem: Single and Double Quotes Not Working

    Hi,

    I have a problem with my keyboard. I´m unable to type single or double quotes, at least not the regular sort that you need to write code in almost any programming language ever invented -which makes it pretty useless.

    A demonstration.

    Single left and right tilted quotes: ``´´´`


    Double quotes: ¨¨¨ ¨

    I´m not able to type a single straight quote at all.

    I just want my keyboard layout to be standard US like everyone elses so I can get on with my work so does anybody know how to just reset it to a normal layout?

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    With this command you can change the language:

    Code:
    # system-config-language
    It will launch a GUI to do so.

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemConfig/language

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    Quote Originally Posted by MuKkEzZz
    With this command you can change the language:

    Code:
    # system-config-language
    It will launch a GUI to do so.

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemConfig/language
    It's not a language issue, and apparently not a keyboard layout issue either. I disconvered that I can type " and ' by using the Alt Gr key which is sort of a workaround. I'd prefer to set them as the defaults though and have the crappy symbols accessible by Alt Gr (or not at all(...

    Any ideas how to do that..?

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    Check your keyboard settings/config ? If not installed already:
    su
    yum install system-config-keyboard


    Open from menus (Admin => ??). What's the setting ?

    V

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    SOLVED!

    I tried running system-config-keyboard and it was already installed. There was no menus except for a long list of keyboard layouts so I scrolled down to QWERTY US and clicked OK. That fixed it and everything is fine now so thanks a lot Hlingler, you da man!

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