Unable to type certain characters e.g. apostrophes, quotation marks, or inverted commas, into DaDesktop machine

This is an irritating issue that crops up occasionally and depends on the physical keyboard you're using, the language layout, and the localisation settings active on the machine.

This is a Windows only Issue

You can sort it 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', click on your preferred language, and then 'Options'.
  5. Then, 'Add a keyboard', and select the layout of your chosen keyboard, e.g. a UK keyboard layout
  6. Delete the old keyboard layouts by clicking on them and 'Remove'
  7. Test by typing single quotes, ' ' ', quotation marks, ' " ' and backticks `.


This video also demonstrates the fix required.