#10250 HIGH Not Tri: Write activity misinterprets quote characters on CL1C spanish keyboard

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#10250: Write activity misinterprets quote characters on CL1C spanish keyboard
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 Reporter:  pgf                       |                 Owner:  uwog         
     Type:  defect                    |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  high                      |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                            |           Next_action:  diagnose     
 Verified:  0                         |   Deployment_affected:               
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 running Write-63 (in os207) on a properly configured spanish 1.5HS machine
 with a spanish keyboard exhibits these misbehaviors:
   - the double-quote key (shift-2) produces << and >> characters (i.e.,
 what i think are french-style quotes).
   - the apostrophe key (unshifted question mark, next to Borrar) produces
 right- and left-facing double quotes.
   - the accent grave (backtick, on shift-3) works correctly as a
 diacritical, but when hit twice, like other dead keys, should produce a
 bare accent grave.  Write changes this to right- and left-facing double
 quotes.

 using the us/intl version of the mechanical keyboard, on a different
 laptop, Write does none of these transformations.  (it does convert double
 and single quotes to be alternately left- and right-facing, but it
 preserves their doubleness and singleness.  a backtick  produces
 alternating left- and right- single quotes.  an accent grave, typed twice,
 produces a bare accent grave.

 (note that there is no backtick key on the spanish keyboard.  i believe
 the accent grave diacritical is meant to double for that purpose, in which
 case i would expect shift-3, hit twice, to produce left- and right-facing
 single quotes.  but this is just a guess.)

 one other thing: all of single/double quote, and backtick, work properly
 in Terminal, and in search and edit fields.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10250>
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