floppywhopper Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Hey everyone I was hoping someone can help me out I have been using Mandriva since Mandrake 9, and at installation when it asks for keyboard I have never had any problems submitting US International - until now. Most of the keys work OK, but the apostrophe ( in particular ) and some of the other grammar keys simply won't work or give other symbols. I am having to use the spellchecker in firefox to constantly correct spelling and grammar. On installation I selected US Int as usual, and post-install I even found the correct keyboard from a list ( Microsoft Internet keyboard ) but still no joy. Previous installs Mandriva 2007, 2006 etc had no problem with the keyboard so why this one ( Mandriva 2008 Powerpack ). Can anyone help please regards floppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 If some keys are not configured (especially apostrophes and such), then please check first if you really have the right locale setting selected on your system. There are usually several options available for many languages. Not all of them support/enable such "special" characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floppywhopper Posted October 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I checked the locale settings and they're all correct all the settings are supposedly correct but still no apostrophes floppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 You might look on the following page and see if your keyboard behaves as one of those pictured. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floppywhopper Posted October 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 Thankyou David On that page was the answer our keyboards were accenting letters instead of placing apostrophes when I changed from "US Int" to "US" the problem disappeared This is strange as this has never happened before in the many editions of mandrake / mandriva ( Mandrake 7, 9, 10, 2006,2007, 2008 ) that I've used and I have always specified US Int keyboard at installation and never had this issue. This is good - one of the last hurdles before ditching windows completely. Thanks again floppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 I am glad that link was useful to you. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.