Accents (diacritic marks) stopped working as they should

Question

I use Windows in English but my keyboard layout matches my keyboard, which is Spanish ISO (es-es, es Mac) --it has the best QWERTY key set for Latin+English languages. It's also overridden as the default vs using the language list because Windows randomly switches it to match the system's display language (en-us) despite that keyboard being removed in the settings.

I've sort gave up on that ever being fixes but lately this thing happens where I'm unable to type in the accented letters ([semi]vowels with diacritic marks). When I attempt to do it pressing the tilde, diaeresis, acute, grave, and circumflex accent keys what happens (instead of nothing waiting to appear in the next keystroke) is that they're shown twice immediately as if I had pressed the key twice.

I can work around it by bringing up the touch keyboard but it's cumbersome at best and I need to stop at every accent or omit them; in French is somewhat inferred because accented vowels would normally use their own position in a work, Italian is somewhat lax about them; Portuguese, I know it can tolerate going without them but since I barely speak it I rather stick by the rules, specially since it's closest to Spanish where accents change intonation, tense, person, etc. Thankfully I use English most of the time.

If press the lowercase E key following the acute accent key to get é, what I get instead is:

• acute [ é ]

  ´´e

The same goes for the rest, i.e;

• grave [ è ]

  ``e

• circumflex [ î ]

  ^^i

• tilde [ õ ]

  ~~o

• diaeresis/tréma/umlaut [ ü ]

  ¨¨u

One of the key features (no pun) from this variant of Spanish vs the Latin American one is that it has the Ç key, which is working normally unlike the modifiers. It's already "modified" I guess, so it sort of make sense, ...if it were supposed to make sense.

How is it fixed? -- I'm using Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, BTW. I searched anything related to region, language, keyboard, input devices and accessibility in their broken, unfinished Settings and Control Panel areas but nothing seems to get it back to normal. Other keyboards behave the same.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello, I found this thread after I encountered exactly the same thing. Mine probably happened after an update but I couldn't tell for sure (I don't restart that often).

Im using a czech keyboard which uses accutes the same way. Long story short:

Delete keymapping for your language and add it back again.

If you are using only one keymapping for the language just add another one and delete it afterwards. Shuffling languages does not help its keymapping bug.

keywords in czech for google bot, so other victims of this bug can find this solution: diakritika háčky čárky dvojité ´´ ´ˇ