Windows 10: Suddenly lost ability to get accented characters via long press on touch keyboard

Dear Mods, I found the answer to my question. If this updated post helps anyone, please place it somewhere. Else, please delete it or let me know if I can delete it. Thanks very much![EDITED TO UPDATE with answer]Hello, all!I hope someone can help me with this weird problem that started occurring suddenly. My Windows 11 laptop's touchscreen virtual keyboard always provided accented character options on long press. Recently, I had an occasion to connect my laptop to two external monitors via HDMI. I discovered immediately thereafter that suddenly, I have lost the ability to get the accented cha

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Accented Characters input using Touch keyboard, Microsoft Surface Book.

Hi Janet,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand your concern and appreciate the time and effort that you have taken to research on the issue. We have looked into this for you, the character options when you press and hold a letter is available on the Touch Keyboard, you can enable
the Touch Keyboard by turning the Tablet mode ‘ON’ on your Surface Book. To enable the tablet mode on your Surface, you can follow the steps below.

1. Enable Tablet mode by referring
   Turn tablet mode on or off.
   
2. Then click on keyboard icon at the right bottom corner of the taskbar.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Then try using foreign character and symbols.
   

You can refer the picture below for the character options that are available for letter ‘e’.







However, the On-screen keyboard will provide the options that are similar to a physical keyboard. For more information on the character options that are available, I would suggest you to refer to

Type Accented Characters and check if it helpful to you.





Regards,

 

Touch keyboard press and hold for accented letters - missing accents

In Windows 10 with a English UK locale selected (although the issue applies it to various other layouts) I select the show touch keyboard button from context-clicking on the task bar. When the touch keyboard shows I can enter accented letters by pressing
and hold a key. For example press and hold n to get the ability to enter ñ.

However, press and hold s gives š but no ŝ (which is a shame - I was rather hoping for ŝ). The c key has the inverse problem - there is ĉ, but č is missing. And u misses ŭ and other accents. And so forth - the problem is the choice of accented letters.
Of course not all of Unicode and all languages can be supported by the generic press and hold popups, but trying to be objective, I'd suggest (based on the CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 13873:2000) the press and holds give access to the following letters: ß áâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿāăąćĉċčďđēėęěĝğġģĥħĩīįıijĵķĸĺļľŀłńņňʼnŋōőœŕŗřśŝşšșţťŧțũūŭůűųŵŷźżž

Would it be possible to raise a bug or an improvement request to Microsoft for this?

 

Touch keyboard press and hold for accented letters - missing accents

Hi,

You can configure the keyboard language to enable more accented characters on your computer. You can check
SeanGugler's post on this
page to know how you can try the suggestion.

If you want to provide a feedback or suggestion for Microsoft regarding your concern, you can do that
here.

Let us know if you need additional assistance.

Regards.