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abhishes
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Keyboard problem in ubuntu linux 9.0.4 on vmware workstation

I am using vmware workstation 6.5.3. I am running ubuntu linux desktop 9.0.4 as guest OS, on Windows 7 as Host OS.

I am having a strange problem with keyboard. When I try to type in the quotation mark, it doesn't enter the right character.

For example when I go to text editior and type in the quotation mark, the following chacter is typed (copy pasted)

¨

However the real quotation mark should be

"

The character (first one) looks like the quotation mark but is wrong and many programming languages don't treat it as a quotation mark. If I replace it with the second one, everything works fine.

But on vmware + ubuntu linux 9.0.4 I cannot type in the quotation mark via keyboard.

Please help.

Have a look at the attached image, even that shows that the quotation mark entered by me in the search text is not the actual quotation mark.

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abhishes
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Any help on this issue? I am not able to type in " and ' characters from the keyboard inside my VM.

I have noticed that some other people also faced similar issue.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785029

But their solution does not work for me.

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