When coding, why does matlab prevent me from writting ' " ^ ~ without waiting for the next character?

Hi!

When I type any of the following characters: ' " ^ ~ anywhere in the MATLAB environment, MATLAB holds while waiting for the next character to be typed.

For example: typing string='test doesn't put the second ' up until the next character is typed.

Thank you very very much - it's quite a frustrating/low level problem.

Matt

[Matt Molteno]

Still not resolved - but I just had a thought that it may have something to do with putting accents on letters. I've known other software to have modes like that. I'm really hoping to fix this irritation. Thank you!

[Jan]

Which operating system and region/language setup do you use?

[Mischa Kim]

Following-up on Jan's comment, I'd speculate that you are using different regional/language settings for MATLAB than you do for all your other S/W. In which case the keyboard might and in some instances will behave differently. As an example, on a US keyboard the "^" character types just the way you would expect it. On a German keyboard you will experience the behaviour you described above.

[Matt Molteno]

Thanks for the lead Jan, Mischa - you were exactly right. I resolved the issue by deleting the USA-international language option in Windows control panel, so it wasn't a MATLAB issue. Perhaps some common MATLAB key combination was setting it off.

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Hello Matthew, this not a MATLAB functionality/feature. You will observe the same behavior in any word processing tool or in your favorite internet browser.

[Matt Molteno]

Thanks for the amazingly quick reply... I thought so as well - but it's only in MATLAB, I've tried all my other word processing programs MS.word,wordpad, notepad, firefox, etc. Any ideas?