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The quote key (") began change its behavior while using eclipse. What would
happen when pressing " is that it wouldn't appear until another key was
typed. Some of the other keys typed would cause french characters to
appear.

This was caused because XP was switching the keyboard layout after a
Shift-Left Alt combination was hit. I used this key combination in
eclipse and hence it triggered the behavior.

To change this: Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options
[Advanved] (Details) (Key Settings)

Select /Switch between input languages/ Click (Change Key Sequence)

De select /Switch input languages/ and / Switch keyboard layouts/

Click (Ok) all the way out.

Obvious really.