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Unable to type certain characters like apostrophes, quotation marks, or inverted commas into a DaDesktop machine

This pesky problem pops up only occasionally, but it depends on the physical keyboard, language layout, and internationalisation settings you're using.

This is a Windows only Issue

You can sort this out by following these steps:

  1. In the Windows search bar, type 'Settings'
  2. Click 'Time & Language'
  3. Click the language menu item on the left-hand side
  4. Then under 'Preferred Languages', select your language, then click 'Options'.
  5. Next, 'Add a keyboard', and choose the layout that matches your keyboard, like the US keyboard layout.
  6. Remove the old keyboard layouts by clicking on them and selecting 'Remove'
  7. Test it out by typing single quotes, ' ' ', quotation marks, ' " ' and inverted quote marks `.


This video also shows how to apply the fix.