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by mdaniel 798 days ago
Depending on your level of interest in really typing those letters after leaving the game, Windows does ship with an International keyboard layout (e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kb... ). It can be annoying to leave it in place since there is a small delay when typing single quotes, for example, as it is waiting for the "chord" of 'e to make é (macOS does this too via option-e putting ´ on the screen and then waiting for the letter to which the accent will be applied), but if you find it annoying then Windows-spacebar will switch between your normal layout and the International one usually just for the window in focus. That can be good or bad depending on your expectations :-)

I also have to switch to it to play a lot of games on Windows since developers are absolutely atrocious about distinguishing between the keyboard scan code and the layout scan code, so my day-to-day Dvorak makes the normal wasd in games all over the keyboard. Well, I'm cheating you a little since I could actually switch to just the English US, skipping the International part, but since I already have to have a 2nd layout for gaming, might as well get the accents for free