I tried a different keyboard but the new keyboard had the same problem, so it had to be a software problem. This could be a pretty huge roadblock for an editor! My troubleshooting efforts I noticed that my keyboard seemed to have a problem with quotation marks and apostrophes - it wouldn’t type a space after them, they wouldn’t show up until I pressed them twice, and if I had the audacity to try typing a double quote followed by a vowel, it turned into an umlaut over the vowel.