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Asked: 2026-06-07T14:07:05+00:00

I just started programming J. Now I want to type text=: ‘hello world’ text

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I just started programming J. Now I want to type

text=: 'hello world'
text

in the gtk terminal, which when run should display:

hello world

But when I type the single quote character it renders as ´, not as ‘ in the gtk terminal. And then when I run the program the interpreter says “spelling error”.
Now the only way I can put a ‘ in the terminal is by typing it in notepad and pasting it in the gtk terminal. I find that cumbersome.

Now my question is:
Is there an easier way to type a ‘ in the gtk terminal?
I have Windows 7 64 bits version, also 64 bits version of J, version j64-701.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just encountered this problem as well, and it appears that this is caused by a keyboard setting (controlling whether quotes appear directly or can be used to make é, ë and the like).

    This setting can be changed in almost all Windows applications by pressing Left Alt + Shift. After using this combination, the single quotes appeared correctly for me.

    HTH.

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