Keyboard Settings for ¨Dumb¨ Quotemarks (ASCII-34 and ASCII-39) for C Code

Timecorps

6/16/23, 11:30 AM

I have Ubuntu 21.10 (recently upgraded from 20.04) on an 8G RPi-4 connected to a touchscreen and a mini keyboard. Using the Budgie desktop and a USB power block as a battery it makes a very nice portable desktop computer, and I mainly use it for writing and for coding C and HTML. For coding I mostly use Geany.

Since the upgrade it has become almost unusuable for C coding, because the keys that used to generate double-quotes (ASCII code 34) and single-quotes (ASCII code 39) no longer do that. Instead they generate extended character quotes that the compiler chokes on.

I have messed about with different keyboards (I live in Ireland and use UK keyboard layout) and changed locales, even editing /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en and rebuilding it, but nothing I can do will restore the old, straightforward ASCII behaviour. Sometimes deleting and replacing keyboard layouts allows ASCII behaviour for a while, but it never survives upgrade.

This has been ruining my mornings for days, and my Google-fu is no good here: all I can find is description of how to use the fancy new internationalisation features to enter accent marks, not how to turn the thing off and go back to plain-old ASCII.

The five accent marks that Irish does use can be obtained from alt-gr just like the old days, but that would be a bonus. I write more C than Irish, and I just want an ASCII keyboard, like I have been using since the 1970s.

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FedKad

6/16/23, 4:20 PM

This seems like an editor (configuration) problem. Does this problem occur on the terminal? For example, does the terminal command `echo "hello"` displays `hello` without quotes?

Timecorps

6/17/23, 10:45 AM

It's everything: editors and terminal. So I can't even switch to vi to fix the strings. :-(

Timecorps

6/25/23, 10:55 AM

Bug reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1962302

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Keyboard Settings for ¨Dumb¨ Quotemarks (ASCII-34 and ASCII-39) for C Code

TH: การตั้งค่าแป้นพิมพ์สำหรับ Â¨DumbÂ¨ เครื่องหมายคำพูด (ASCII-34 และ ASCII-39) สำหรับรหัส C

RO: Setări de la tastatură pentru ghilimele ¨Dumb¨ (ASCII-34 și ASCII-39) pentru codul C

RU: Настройки клавиатуры для «тупых» кавычек (ASCII-34 и ASCII-39) для кода C

VI: Cài đặt bàn phím cho Dấu ngoặc kép Â¨DumbÂ¨ (ASCII-34 và ASCII-39) cho Mã C

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