Windows 10: Laptop typing double accents for each stroke

I use the kind of layout where you press the accent key then the letter you want to accent. For some time, every time I press the accent key my laptop writes two accents. This doesn't just create a second, annoying accent I don't need, it totally prevents me from assigning a letter to the first accent.I know this is not a hardware problem. It concerns all accents, and the same keys function properly when I switch to a different layout where they are assigned different symbols. I also tried switching to another layout of the same type and deleting my current one, then restarted the computer. Th

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Acute accent key creates double ´´

Hi, not a fix, I'm afraid- instead, a pretty much universal rational alternative- freeware

AX - Instant, simple accents and special characters

Choose the language - character set (or add your own); hit a character then your chosen special key and

ç é è û ó all in 11 key strokes I think it was.

 

Acute accent key creates double ´´

- do you mean AltGr ?

What's your keyboard set to?

The Best Way to Type French Accents on Windows (and Linux)

 

Double accents ~ ´ and ^ only

Hello,

I regularly use the French (France) and Portuguese (Portugal) layout so that I have fast access to the keyboard layout and accents for those languages. I have no other languages installed on my version of Windows 10. The issue I'm having started about a month ago.

Strangely, on the French keyboard I can type éç ù without issue, but I cannot use the circonflexe at all. I press the accent key and I receive two accents. Normally, I should be able to press the accent key (to the right of the letter 'p') once and then the desired letter (for instance, u) and receive û, Instead, I receive ^^. If I press the accent key and then press u, I will receive ^^u.

Similarly on the Portuguese keyboard, I can type ç without issue, but I have the same issue as above with ~~ and ^^ and ´´. They always appear as double accents. So I get ~~a instead of ã.

Since this only seems to affect the accents on the right hand side of the keyboard, I connected an external keyboard to see if this was a hardware issue. The issue is exactly the same. Also, this same issue is repeated on the On-Screen Keyboard (OSK). I've removed the languages (apart from English) and re-added them, but the problem persists. It must be a software or driver issue, but I'm unsure of what to test next. Any ideas?

Thank you!