Solve : Foreign characters on keyboard?

1.	Solve : Foreign characters on keyboard?
Answer» [I'm NEW here, if I've posted this in the wrong forum, I'm sorry!] Somehow, my keyboard (a Gateway FX laptop, American layout, Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit), whenever I type ", ', `, ~ or ^ and a vowel, it comes out with a letter with an accent, such as '+a=á or ^+u=û. It SUDDENLY started doing this, out of the blue. My questions are: 1) Is it possible to switch off/on this setup? 2) Is it possible to add new characters to be inserted when a letter combination is typed? Thank you. Control PANEL - Region & Language.He must be using US INTERNATIONAL keyboard. He needs to do some reading to understand why and how it works. How to use the United States-International keyboard layout Also: Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Addition help: Quote Windows International Keyboard Codestlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codeint.html Aug 12, 2011 – Windows - International Keyboard Codes. This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. The list is organized by type. If you ... I have it on my laptop. I turn it on when n NEED it. But it seldom interferes with my English typing. I mess it up with no fault of the keyboard layout.

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[I'm NEW here, if I've posted this in the wrong forum, I'm sorry!]

Somehow, my keyboard (a Gateway FX laptop, American layout, Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit), whenever I type ", ', `, ~ or ^ and a vowel, it comes out with a letter with an accent, such as '+a=á or ^+u=û. It SUDDENLY started doing this, out of the blue. My questions are:

1) Is it possible to switch off/on this setup?
2) Is it possible to add new characters to be inserted when a letter combination is typed?

Thank you. Control PANEL - Region & Language.He must be using US INTERNATIONAL keyboard. He needs to do some reading to understand why and how it works.
How to use the United States-International keyboard layout
Also:
Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Addition help:
Quote

Windows International Keyboard Codestlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codeint.html
Aug 12, 2011 – Windows - International Keyboard Codes. This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. The list is organized by type. If you ...

I have it on my laptop. I turn it on when n NEED it. But it seldom interferes with my English typing. I mess it up with no fault of the keyboard layout.

Solve : Foreign characters on keyboard?

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