Quotation marks in Ubuntu Terminal

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 as a guest in VMWare. When I am using quotations marks in terminal, the first pressing of the key produces nothing, while the second one produces a double quotation mark looking like the ones from the keyboard, but different from the ones I already have in some text documents. What should I do?

From ubuntu lmsasu

• This properly have to do with "Dead keys".
  Go to Menu>System>Preferences>Keyboard click the tab labeled layout and try to add a different keybordlayout (i have no clue if this helps for a Romanian keybord layout).

  Alternatively try to press space afterwards (instead of pressing the key twice).

  maco : It's a "deadkey" keyboard layout that does this.
  From Source Lab

• It sounds like the terminal might be using start and end quotes instead of just quotation marks... Which is odd. And wrong. Why it's doing this, is beyond me, and I can't think of a solution other than copying and pasting.

  From Daniel