Annoying KDE behevior

[PingKing]

I´m using Fedora 4, KDE 3.5. Today I noticed this strange behavior:
Each time press the the ´ or ¨ characters (single quote and double quote) on my keyboard nothing happens, and only the second time I press the button, the character is printed. When I press one of these characters and then a different character I get all sorts of strange characters:
ś á ŕ ź ë ....
This happens on all KDE applications including virtual terminals.

I did play around a bit with the keybord layout setting in order to add support for Hebrew, but even when I changed it all back, the annoying behavior remanded.

Any ideas of how to fix this?
Thanks!

[void_false]

Some time ago had same problem with GNOME. But then this problem disappeared. Strange.

[jaboua]

That's not single quotes and double quotes - nothing happens because you first have to press the key and then a letter to place those signs above the letters, so you can make letters like ä ë é è (accents?) and so on.

There should be a button for single and double quotes on the keyboard - I dunno what keyboard you have, but on my norwegian qwerty I have to press shift-2 for double and tge key left for return and above right shift for single quotes.