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I'm currently using Ubuntu 10.10 and Netbeans 7.0 and I can't type accented letters with dead keys any more. It's not a version specific problem seems it's related with Swing since I've got the same problem with older version of Netbeans and OS...

When I type '+a on any app on Linux I get a á vowel. All Linux apps are working fine, but Netbeans doesn't. When I type '+a on Netbeans I get a a vowel (no accent). I cant type quotes and double quotes either.

But I got accents on Netbeans using the right Alt key. (that's not what I want)

At terminal I got the following locale:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
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That effect of '+ would be an input method. Input methods are processed by each application, so whether they work depends on what libraries the application uses. I don't know what input method uses '+ or whether Netbeans can be made to use it. – Gilles May 11 '11 at 21:15
I'm not typing the plus "+" key..... I tried to explain the keystrokes eg: "'" + "a" = "á" understand it now? – AndreDurao May 15 '11 at 23:27
Ah, I get it. It wasn't clear at all in your original post, lacking both the formatting (kind of hard to find in the documentation, I admit) and the standard terminology “dead keys”. – Gilles May 16 '11 at 6:40

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