Windows 10: Easiest way to configure the UK keyboard to use accented characters

Please excuse my exasperation....As the last discussion on this subject has been locked, yet again preventing any continuity of discussion whatsoever of Microsoft's failure to support a fairly obvious and common requirement and where the solution at that time was that a respondant kindly shared a Keyboard definition file they had personally created from their personal One drive but which, sadly, is no longer available so that solution is no longer an option...I think it is appropriate to ask exactly the same obvious question again, albeit with an increased degree of irrascibility...HOW does

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How to configure the UK keyboard to use accented characters with only 2 key press?

I have a UK keyboard layout, but I frequently write in Portuguese, which has accented characters like á, ã, ê, ç, etc.

When using an US keyboard, it's possible to configure Windows to use the keyboard layout called US International and easily type accented characters. For example, to produce á: press the key ['] then [a].

Using the US International all the accented characters can be produced in the same way, with just 2 key press. I don't want to press more than 2 keys to get an accented character! So, please don't suggest keyboard layouts that I have to press [alt] + ['] then [a] to get the á. That's too much key presses to get a single char!

I would like to have the same behavior using the UK keyboard layout on Windows 11. What is the correct keyboard name to use on Windows 11 to get this behavior?

 

How to configure the UK keyboard to use accented characters with only 2 key press?

Hi Alexandre,

I was facing exactly the same issue.

There is no ready solution for that, so I've created by my own a new layout (I've called United Kingdom - International) and included the specific accented characters.

There is no option to upload the file here, so I've shared from OneDrive.

Link to download.

 

UK Extended keyboard does not type some of the accented characters

Hi again -

Try these fixes for when AltGR key is not working to type French accents on UK Extended keyboard:

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-type-french-ac...

https://superuser.com/questions/628033/how-to-t...

How to Easily Type and Pronounce French Accents (With Audio)

Typing French accents keyboard shortcuts

https://superuser.com/questions/573322/can-not-...

https://superuser.com/questions/1020203/typing-...

https://www.aflahaye.nl/en/frequently-asked-que...

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/uk-ext...

Hopefully one of those will work this time. Let me know.