Windows 10 changed how quotation marks work. How do I fix this?

I've always been used to pressing the ' and " button twice to get the respective characters. But recently, it changed without my involvement.

Now, when I press the button, I get 2 of them immediately. Aside from being just a pain in the gluteus maximus, it also doesn't allow me to type apostrophe characters.

I don't know when this started, but I believe it had something to do with the last big update, which required rebooting several times. Since this might be an intended feature by Microsoft, I don't know if it's fixable, so any and all answers would be appreciated.

Solution 1:

I assume you’re currently using the “US – QWERTY” layout. What you probably want is the US International keyboard. It has all the so-called “dead keys” you want:

• ' + vowel → vowel with acute accent, e.g., '+e → é
• ` + vowel → vowel with grave accent, e.g., `+e → è
• " + vowel → vowel with diaeresis (or umlaut), e.g., "+e → ë
• ^ + vowel → vowel with circumflex accent, e.g., ^+e → ê
• ~ + a, n or o → letter with tilde, e.g. ~+n → ñ, ~+o → õ
• ' + c → ç (Windows)

To enable it, go to Settings → Time & language → Region & language (sidebar). There, select the language (English, Dutch, whatever) you want to modify, click “Options”. Then, under “Keyboards” add the “United Status-International” layout. Then remove the regular US layout.