Windows 10: Diacritical or accented typing issue

Looking for keyboard shortcuts for diacriticals, either in ENG INTL or in Deutsch/German. Bing's list has instructions for combos, apostrophe=acute accent works, but comma=cedilla and colon=umlaut do nothing. What is the correct shortcut to use without keying in a code each time?****Original Title : keyboard shortcuts not working*****

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Diacritics

Hi,

I need to be able to type acute accents and other diacritics common in French (but also found in standard English borrowings from French/German/Spanish etc.) The suggestions I have found elsewhere seem to be to make the whole keyboard on my laptop French
- but this seems a poor option as then, surely, all the letters would be in a different order.

None of the advertised shortcuts online seem to work. My old Mac had this as standard, you just type apple E and it gives you an acute accent. I'm finding all the complications bizarre and frustrating ... it isn't too much to ask to be able to write cafe
correctly without reprogramming one's entire computer or jumping through innumerable and inexplicable hoops!

 

Cannot type é using key combination ´+e (problem with diacritics)

Hi, in my case, I can select UK, US or UKX (UK extended) keyboards.

è only works with the last of these.
I don't actually have a single quote key with the reverse slope, only '.

What I do find helps a lot is a tiny free 3rd party program that allow you to press a letter, followed by a key of your choice to cycle through a set of possible characters for a given language.

Thus e followed by F8 => é
e F8 F8 => è

e F8 F8 F8 => ê

It provides sets for many languages, and you can create your own:








Much more convenient and works anywhere.

More:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...9-091858ce5a8b
How to Type Characters with Accents on Windows - Appuals.com
ALT Key Codes for Special Characters List

 

How can I type language accents using my desktop computer and keyboard?

How can I type language accents using my desktop computer and keyboard? On my cellphone I hold down a key and various language diacritical characters are displayed for selection. Obviously, that's not going to work with a desktop's keyboard. Is there a
key sequence I can enter to get the diacritical that I want?