For instance, to type ä, you would type first the double-quote followed by letter 'a'. Double-quote gives an umlaut (diaeresis). Single-quote corresponds to acute accent, but also the cedilla like ç. Tilde corresponds to the tilde of course. Grave accent is grave accent. If this is not the case, two characters will appear, the accent character followed by another one.

This assuming that the letter in question can indeed have an accent. The accent will only appear once you type the character after. Basically you type one of these characters before the letter that should receive an accent. When you hit the accent key, nothing appears on the screen. These are ~ (tilde), '(double-quote), '(single-quote), `(grave accent) and ^ ( circumflex accent). The main difference is 5 keys that become 'dead' keys. The beauty of the US International kb layout is that it does not really disturb typing in English in addition of providing access to various accented and special characters. It also respects fully the keyboard legends. Alternatively you may add the keyboard to your main typing language (English) without adding additional languages if you want to use US International keyboard all the time and type in different languages without switching language/keyboard layout back and forth all the time.

Click Add, to add additional languages and make sure you select 'United States- International' keyboard layout. Go to 'Languages' tab and click on 'Details' button. You may change your keyboard layout in Control Panel, Regional and Language Options. The easiest way to type accented characters regularly is to change your keyboard layout through Windows and in your case, the one you are looking for is 'US-International'. I assume that your Inspiron has a normal US-layout keyboard in which case there is an easy solution.

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