Qwerty keyboard layout difference between wls and wsl-g #1194
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Hi,
I'm experiencing a weird issue related to keyboard layout in wsl-g.

The issue occurs with the " ' key.
I'm working with an external qwerty keyboard configured like:
In Windows all keys works as expected.
If I launch an Ubuntu terminal via Windows Terminal the " ' key is working as expected.
If I switch to any wsl-g app (intelij, tilix,...) hitting " is resulting in

Typing ' is resulting in
I need to press ALT gr + " in order to produce ", ALT gr + ' to produce '.
This is not really convenient because I use those characters a lot when I'm writing code.
Today I found out that I resolve the above issue by switching to

I have no clue why this works.
Did anyone else experience this issue, why is it behaving like this?
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