Thread: Which Bluetooth Keyboard for the N800?
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Eric S. Smith is offline Eric S. Smith
2007-07-24 , 01:43
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Originally Posted by abarrow View Post
I have to hit the key twice to get it to type an apostrophe (or shift and hit it twice for a quote), then if the next letter is an "s" or a few others, I get the little glitch above it
That's because it's a combining accent key. Useful for putting accents on characters; for typing apostrophes, not so much. I noticed it right away, but you're the first I've found who mentions it.
You can hit <ALT-GR>+<Apostrophe> to get a proper ASCII apostrophe, and add <SHIFT> to get a quotation mark. This is obviously backward, in my opinion, for a keyboard layout set to "English (USA)".
Originally Posted by abarrow View Post
I don't suppose there's a keyboard map in the N800 that I can alter to make this change?
I've been meaning to look up how to map keys in the X Window system, which underpins the N800 GUI. Tools exist; not sure if they've all been ported.