Strange behavior of quotes key

dretz · ‎03-12-2018

I have a new laptop with strange behavior when I press the quotes key or the circumflex (shift 6) key. Upon a first press nothing happens, on a second press two symbols appear, for example '', "", or ^^. I want to change this so only one symbol is correctly displayed, for example ',",^ on the press of the relevant key. Is this behavior configurable and how is it done?

jorkki · ‎03-13-2018

It is not strange behaviour but intentional as Windows supports tens and tens of languages and many languages use more characters than there are in the English alphabet.

You can type many of them using those special keys by first pressing the accent character and then the character you want the accent on, like for example äëïöâêôüÜ etc. The same goes for the accents in many languages éèáà etc.

Btw. the ¨ are not your normal quotation marks. They are like this " vs. ¨

If you just want to type ^ You can do it by first pressing the caret and then space

Edit: And yes, there are utilities that let you remap keys, like SharpKeys for example

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