US-International keyboard

Question

I have my keyboard set to US-international which lets me get my accents but I forget the steps required to set it up. Can someone point me to those instructions? Thanks

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Once into internation keyboard layout, you can as the link says access the accented letters by pressing the accent you want first (eg, single quote) then press the letter after (so ' then press e gives you é) or in one keystroke press the letter while holding the AltGr key. I tend to press the quote then the letter, except for the ñ letter, which doing it that way requires three key presses (shift + ` = ~, then n gives you ñ) but the AltGr way requires only two (AltGr+n = ñ).

Note you can assign shortcuts key sequences to swith keyboard layouts, so for example at any time I can press Alt+Shift+1 to go to normal layout, or Alt+Shift+2 to switch to international (as internation can be annoying when you're typing otherwise, as any punctuation that acts as an accent, ( " ' ~ ^ ` ) you need to press that then the space key to get at normally, or follow it by a letter that can't be accented, eg, normal layout I can type "A", but in international that comes out Ä", etc.