Windows 10: Special charcters have switched places in the keyboard

Windows 10 Home 1809


If I type a double quote " or a single quote ' or a carat ^ or a tilde ~ I need to touch another keyboard character after before it registers on screen. I know this behavior is call 'dead keys'. So, I search and find instructions to defeat the behavior. Replace whatever keyboard is configured now with US QWERTY. So, I open settings. The keyboard is already set at US QWERTY. I added US International, deleted US QWERTY and tried again. Unsurprisingly, the same issue occurs. Reverse the process so the machine is back to US QWERTY and the result is still no change.


This is a new laptop. My other laptop is using Windows 10 Home 1803 and does not have the problem.

Does 1809 home have an incorrect version of US QWERTY? If so, how do I fix it without jumping through too many hoops (such as installing a program to manually re-map the keyboard)? Alternatively, how do I 'kill' dead keys?



***Original title: Dead keys***

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Switching Japanese Windows with English menus

Yes, I do mean those keys. I tried just switching to Japanese keyboard, as you suggested, but those keys didn't work. Also, the selection key is normally the spacebar in Japan but I could only get IME to work with the Tab key (for those who aren't familiar with Japanese typing: you type in Roman characters, then press a selection key and it steps you through a list of options for the word you are typing in Japanese characters). Did you get the special keys to work as they do in native Japanese mode?

It may well be that I was missing something, although I did try every option I could think of. In any event, as I said, I gave in and now have Japanese Windows running with English menus and everything seems to be working perfectly.
Thanks,

Mike

 

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Cleaning a keyboard and keyboard advice?

are you using the special software with the keyboard?

If You are- id suggest looking at Logitech for a Mechanical Keyboard or a Roccat Ryos Series.

Rosewil- they make good mechanical keyboards but im unsure if they have any special gaming software

if you want Fancier than the G110 or the Ryos series look at the RGB keyboards coming out