I apologize profusely for the incredibly newbish question I’m about to ask, but for some reason, my brain’s locked up:
I’m trying to code in C on gvim on a virtual machine running Ubuntu, but my Hello World throws compiler errors which I suspect has to do with the quotes being different ascii(unicode?) codes than standard quotes. It doesn’t recognize ‘Hello World’ as a string and says 'stray \250 in program' as well as 'stray \302 in program' each twice.
To type a double quote, I have to hold down Shift and double-tap the quote key. This seems to be a global setting for all programs (terminal, open office, etc.)
Am I correct in assuming it’s a problem with quotes, and if so, would any of you happen to know a solution to my problem?
It sounds like you’ve got the wrong keyboard map set up. I got the same symptoms as you with a ‘UK (international with deadkeys)’ keyboard map. Changed it to a standard UK one and it worked fine.
HTH
Rob