Adrian Sevcenco wrote:

> Forth: using the generic 'us' keyboard i have a lot of problems in 
> pressing ' and " (and another keys)

Hello,

If the problem is getting the compose key to work under X11,
I recently had to manually modify the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
I added the following line in the "InputDevice" section :

         Option      "XkbSymbols" "en_US(pc101)+compose"


Sources (may be in french) :

http://www.root66.net/linux/Linux-france.org/article/fcol-xfaq/x30.htm
http://www.linux-france.org/article/nation/Fr-HOWTO/Fr-HOWTO-8.html
http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/kbd.4.html

Jean-Michel BARBET.

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