United States-International Keyboard Using the RIGHT Alt Key

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United States-International Keyboard Using SHIFT + RIGHT Alt Key

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United States-International Keyboard In Normal State

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United States-International Keyboard In Shift State

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How to switch your keyboard layout to U.S. Intrnational layout

Go to START, then SETTINGS, then CONTROL PANEL.
Double click on KEYBOARD, click on LANGUAGE TAB.
On the right is "Layout". Click the PROPERTIES TAB, then click on the DOWN ARROW until U.S. International is displayed. Click OK twice.

In addition to a special set of characters accessible when you hold down the Alt-key on the right-hand side of the keyboard, you can compose characters by typing first the specific key for the modification (which does not appear on the screen), then the "base" character as follows: 

Accent or Diacritical Mark Modification Key Enter Result
acute (aigu) single quote key + e ' e é
grave reverse quote key +e  ` e è
Umlaut / dieresis  double quote (shift) " a ä ï
circumflex circumflex (shifted 6) ^ a â ô
cedilla  single quote key + c ` c ç
til(de) tilde ~ a ã