Works fine in a 3.5-5180 image, likely an artifact of:

a) switch from original apple fonts to accufonts
b) multiple language support.

likely someone else on the list can explain which of these two items  
is the culprit.

I'll note if you type option-] in a workspace  you see nothing, but  
if you copy/paste that nothing to TextEdit why you get the expected  
characters.

On 10-Jun-06, at 4:01 PM, Jim Rosenberg wrote:

>> You should indicate which macintosh VM and version you are using.
>
> VM is 3.8.6Beta6.app.
>
> Squeak is 3.8 update #6665.
>
>> You need to give a bit more information about the keyboard  you  
>> have  set
>> in os-x preferences, which keystrokes you are using, what you  expect
>> that keystroke to give you say in TextEdit, and what happens in  
>> Squeak.
>
> I'm showing US keyboard script Roman.
>
> The "normal" keys for typographic quotes I expect are:
>
> Double-quotes: option-[, shift-option-[
>
> Single-quotes: option-], shift-option-]
>
> They work fine in every app except Squeak. (They work fine in  
> TextEdit.)
>
> When I bring down the character palette, highlight the right single  
> quote and click insert, Squeak shows it as simply a question-mark.  
> When I type shift-option-], instead of getting the right single  
> quote, I'm getting the character at position 92 in the  
> MorphicFontEditor.
>
> It sounds like my keyboard mapping has gotten confused somehow --  
> if you can straighten me out I'd be much obliged!
>
> -Thanks, Jim
>
>

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