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In Windows 7, you could type e.g. ö by typing Alt Gr2, O

Today in Windows 10 Pro (1511) I tried to write "coördinates" and instead it wrote coordinates

My keyboard layout is ENG UKX, also called English (United Kingdom) United Kingdom Extended (this is shown in the taskbar)

  • Alt Gr2, O produces o
  • Alt GrShift2, O produces o
  • Alt Gr2, Alt GrO produces ¨ó (holding Alt Gr the whole time)
  • Alt Gr2, Alt GrO produces ó (releasing and re-pressing Alt Gr)

This applies to other letters (e.g. a) or other special accents (e.g. the circumflex ô) as well

Is there a setting that I need to fix? Bug in Windows 10? How do I type these characters now?

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    Have you tried to install the keyboard layout again after you updated to 1511?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 19:11
  • @Ramhound just tried swapping to UK and back to UKX it fixed it until I tried to type in Google Chrome and then it broke again? Maybe it is a Chrome issue :(
    – Paul S.
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 19:13
  • Its possible. Load 10240, using the same layout, into a virtual machine and see if the problem exists there.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 19:15
  • If you put the "turning it off and on again" solution as an answer I think I'll mark it, because it now looks inconstant and I think a reboot since re-enabling it will probably fix it
    – Paul S.
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 19:18
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    I am not going to allow the community, to give me reputation, for telling you to reboot or to simply add and remove the keyboard layout. I personally feel answers like that are beyond stupid, so i avoid those types of answers, hence the reason I only asked if you tried it. I sort of figured it would work. I am not saying your question is stupid though, i just don't want reputation, from telling you to restart your machine .
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 19:19

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I had similar issues with my UK Extended keyboard layout. I could only type áéíóúý and not äëïöüÿ. The origin of the issue was Clipboard Master, a tool to manage my clipboard history. This tool uses Alt Gr for a lot of shortcuts which interfered with my keyboard layout. Perhaps you have some other global tooling installed that uses Alt Gr? For me, uninstalling Clipboard Master fixed the issue.

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