FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

[Joel]

That didn't work either. My .ini file already was configured in the
way that you wanted me to configure it. Is there possibly another .ini
file that Frame is reading from? Is there a setting in the menus that
I can tweak? Thanks,

Joel

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:43:45 -0500, Joel <eleysium at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I am using Frame 8 on Windows XP. In the past week I've noticed that
>>I'm unable to type apostrophes or quotation marks. All I get when I
>>type that character is a question mark where the apostrophe should be.
>>I've tried different fonts to no avail. Any idea what could be causing
>>this?
>
> Yes.  With Frame not running, open your maker.ini, the one
> in the main FrameMaker directory, in a text editor.  Find
> the [Spelling] section, and at the end of it is SmartQuotes:
>
> SmartQuotes=''""
>
> which shows the actual quote characters.  Change it to:
>
> SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3
>
> which uses their numeric codes; this is actually specified
> in the file, in a comment above that line that has the codes
> for several different languages.  Save and close maker.ini,
> open FrameMaker, and enjoy.
>
> I had the same problem, and that solved it for me.
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
>