[texworks] Smart quotes?

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 11 août 2010 à 17:22, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> I have a suspicion this might be related to the French keyboard layout - it sounds like your grave (`) is a "dead key", and the Qt editor has some issues with these on the Mac (I think this has come up previously). If you try changing to an English layout, where the ` key does not act as a dead key but just inserts a spacing grave mark, does the problem persist?

Hi Jonathan,

Yes it's exactly the dead key issue you're mentioning: if I switch to the American keyboard the issue vanishes. I did not remember the grave mark wasn't a dead key on the US keyboard, I thought it was one on all keyboards.

Here's the French MacBook Pro keyboard

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compared with the US one

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Thanks for finding the explanation on the spot. I was more worried by understanding what's happening, than solving the problem (I can use another editor or switch to the US keyboard when needed).

Bruno