Re: [Evolution] I type a single-quote and get an acute accent

[Ed Skladany <eskladany comcast net>]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the response.  I'm suspecting the same thing, but don't know what else to check.  I don't see anything odd in my environment. 

Running "locale" gives me:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

But wow! I just discovered that I have the same problem at the command line in an xterm, Konsole, and within vi.  Guess I haven't typed a quote in anything other than Evolution for a while.  I've been upgrading Fedora often so this situation was probably the result of one of those upgrades (using up2date).  I only started using Evolution a month ago so figured it was localized to it.

Time to take this problem to the Fedora list.

Thanks,
Ed

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:13 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I suspect that it must be some system setting because I'm not able to
> reproduce this in plain text nor html formatting when typing in the
> composer...
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:57 -0500, Ed Skladany wrote:
> > 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
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > > Jefferson, LA USA
> > > PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail.
> >