[PLUG] deadkeys

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Jeff's email on accented characters reminded me of this problem.  When I 
installed this distro, I decided to use the deadkeys keyboard option 
since I could never get linux to use the alt+(ansi code on num pad) that 
works for me in windows and was supposed to work in Linux also.  (I use 
the em dash, alt+0151, and the section mark, alt+0168, a lot.  Deadkeys 
don't help with this anyway.  I also use é, alt+0233, which -- as you 
can see -- deadkeys does well.)

Well, it turns out that I use single ' and double ¨ quotes more than I 
use the accented characters made easier with deadkeys, and it is getting 
to be a pain -- especially switching from this computer to others that 
don't require tricks to enter tildes and quotes.  Another problem is 
that the double quotes entered by <shift+quote, space> (¨) aren't 
recognized as ascii quotes by some programs, and OpenOffice's pub quotes 
features is so incompatible that I can't enter double quotes at all in 
my word processing -- have to use two single quotes -- unacceptable.

Problem is, I can't figure out how to turn them off.

Machine is Red Hat 7.3.  Anyone have any ideas?

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