International-English Keyboard Needed

[Ron Earnest]

I write 80 percent in English and the rest of the time in Spanish. I
was used to the English-International keyboard that allowed me to use
alt-letter to accent a vowel, and alt-n to create an "n" with a ~ on
top.

Now I can no longer easily accent my vowels. Or am I wrong?

By the way, choosing Spanish as a language in the keyboard control
panel does not seem to do anything at all.

Thanks, Ron

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Accents and diacriticals in your computer
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/spanport/keyboard.html

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|I write 80 percent in English and the rest of the time in Spanish. I
| was used to the English-International keyboard that allowed me to use
| alt-letter to accent a vowel, and alt-n to create an "n" with a ~ on
| top.
|
| Now I can no longer easily accent my vowels. Or am I wrong?
|
| By the way, choosing Spanish as a language in the keyboard control
| panel does not seem to do anything at all.
|
| Thanks, Ron

 

[Alex Nichol]

I write 80 percent in English and the rest of the time in Spanish. I
was used to the English-International keyboard that allowed me to use
alt-letter to accent a vowel, and alt-n to create an "n" with a ~ on
top.

Now I can no longer easily accent my vowels. Or am I wrong?

Go to Control Panel - Regional And Language Options. Take the Language
page and click Details.
There click on Add and search in the lower drop down, for "United
States - International" to do with English or Spanish, to taste, in the
top one. Click OK. Then in the parent page, select this combination
in the Default Input language in the top drop down, Apply, OK and Apply
any time it is available on the way as you OK out. Then close and
restart to bring it into use. You can first use Key Settings to set a
hot key combination for switching when you switch languages

This Keyboard layout uses a dead key approach: ~ (shift on key left of
1) followed by n appears as ñ and the `(same key no shift) and ' give
grave and acute accents when followed by a suitable character; ^ for
circumflex; " for umlaut; ' and c for ç A space or repeat the accent
character if you want it in its own right

 

[Ron Earnest]

Alex Nichol said:

Go to Control Panel - Regional And Language Options. Take the Language
page and click Details.
There click on Add and search in the lower drop down, for "United
States - International" to do with English or Spanish, to taste, in the
top one. Click OK. Then in the parent page, select this combination
in the Default Input language in the top drop down, Apply, OK and Apply
any time it is available on the way as you OK out. Then close and
restart to bring it into use. You can first use Key Settings to set a
hot key combination for switching when you switch languages

For which much thanks. However; the keyboard reverts to English US
whenever I restart the computer. Is there a way of making
English-International the default keyboard?

Thanks, Ron

 

[Alex Nichol]

For which much thanks. However; the keyboard reverts to English US
whenever I restart the computer. Is there a way of making
English-International the default keyboard?

If you have set the combination in that Default drop down, and exited,
clicking on Apply wherever offered, it *ought* to be the default. There
are some applications that will pick up other installed languages from
their own settings, though