Typing single quite in IDE produces strange characters

[Robert Gilland 3]

I am using Delphi 11.3

I type a single quote in my IDE editing a pascal unit, and the quote does not appear until I press the space character.

What is happening?

More than this if I press a capital C after the single quote, I get a C with a tail underneath it.

Very strange.

[Lajos Juhász 240]

change your regional settings in the IDE. Set your keyboard to for example ENG US.

[PeterBelow 222]

10 hours ago, Robert Gilland said:

I am using Delphi 11.3

I type a single quote in my IDE editing a pascal unit, and the quote does not appear until I press the space character.

What is happening?

More than this if I press a capital C after the single quote, I get a C with a tail underneath it.

Very strange.

This is Windows' character composition on locales that have accented characters. You are probably not using the correct key for the single quote; on a german or french keyboard the key label looks very much like the acute accent character,  "´" instead of the apostrophe/single quote "'".  Which locale are you using, and what type of keyboard?