Bug 16145

Summary: Linux text console pauses on ' character.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Edward T. Schlunder <edward>
Component: console-toolsAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Edward T. Schlunder 2000-08-14 05:33:14 UTC 
No idea which component actually causes this problem, but after installing
Red Hat 7
Beta, if I type a ' (single quote) character, it doesn't show up on the
screen until I hit some other key. If I want to type multiple single quotes
in a row, I can't.

Works fine in X11 terminals, just the Linux text console seems to have this
problem. login prompt, bash prompt, pico, anywhere.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-14 10:38:01 UTC 
This looks like it's intentional (deadkeys feature): When you press ' followed
by e, you should get the accented e character in some keyboard layouts.

Which keyboard layout are you using? Some keyboard layouts have different
keymaps with and without this feature (e.g. there's de-latin1 and
de-latin1-nodeadkeys).
Comment 2 Edward T. Schlunder 2000-08-14 13:27:14 UTC 
How do I find out/change the keyboard layout?
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-08-14 15:51:38 UTC 
cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (or use "setup")

I think "us-latin1" is meant to have deadkeys like that; perhaps you want "us".
Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-23 18:35:13 UTC 
Closing due to lack of user input
Comment 5 Edward T. Schlunder 2000-08-23 18:44:11 UTC 
Sorry. Changing the keyboard layout to us from us-latin1 did indeed fix the
problem, post install. What I was going to do (and never got around to) was
reinstall Red Hat pinstripe and see whether this was sometime I originally
screwed by switching to us-latin1 myself, or if the installer just picked
us-latin1 instead of us for me.