[Evolution] Re: evolution digest, Vol 1 #1604 - 12 msgs

[Ed Skladany <eskladany comcast net>]

Hi Ron,

I've tried composing in text mode (Format/HTML off) and there is no difference for me, the problem still occurs.

Thanks for the response.

Ed

> Message: 11
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] I type a single-quote and get an acute accent
> From: Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>
> To: evolution lists ximian com
> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 03:48:36 -0600
>
>
> --=-erMft+y3kkzRPk5VYSoW
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:55 -0500, Ed Skladany wrote:
> > When I type a single-quote (apostrophe) character when composing mail,
> > the first key press gives me nothing, then pressing it again gives me
> > an acute accent character, like this =B4.   The double-key press makes
> > it seem like I=B4m in some sort of character composing mode without
> > wanting to be.
> >=20
> > I=B4ve checked my language settings in Evolution and KDE, and checked my
> > keyboard type.  I=B4m set to American English for all with UTF-8
> > character encoding.  In fact, as soon as I type the word with the
> > acute in it, the spell checker wants to fix it, and does it properly
> > (replaces it to a word with an apostrophe).  Note that there are two
> > offending words in this paragraph.
> >=20
> > I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard and am running an up-to-date
> > Fedora Core 3 on i686, KDE 3.3 and Evolution 2.0.2.
> >=20
> > If anyone can help, please let me know.
>
> The problem may be that you are in Evil HTML Mode:
>    Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dutf-8
>
> In text mode, single-quotes are just that: plain old ASCII.
> Here are some examples: ''''''''''''''''''''
>
> --=20
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