How to disable Dead keys?

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How to disable Dead keys?

I have a Spanish keyboard with numeric pad, MacOS is in English and my keyboard distribution is Spanish. Suddenly, these 2 dead keays were enabled and I can't write some vital passwords.

Posted on Jul 3, 2023 7:24 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 4, 2023 2:45 PM in response to ooscarr

You have the wrong input source active. Go to system preferences > keyboard > input sources and get rid of the one called Spanish Legacy and make sure you only have Spanish or Spanish ISO on your list.

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Barney-15E

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Jul 3, 2023 7:38 PM in response to ooscarr

If you type the chording keys twice, you should get the actual key, not the accented combination.

If it suddenly changed, did you change your input source (keyboard layout)? Different layouts have different chording keys.

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Skatox

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Jul 17, 2023 2:13 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

In my case I use US instead of US - international version, international version has dead keys enabled.

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ooscarr Author

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Jul 3, 2023 11:31 PM in response to Barney-15E

I think dead keys are not the problem. 0 also presses the dash, dash also press the spacebar, p activates more dead keys.

My Spanish Apple keyboard doesn't have a dash next to the 0 but an apostrophe.

Maybe it has to do with ISO and ANSI variations.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 17, 2023 2:24 PM in response to Skatox

Skatox wrote:

In my case I use US instead of US - international version, international version has dead keys enabled.

Are you suggesting to ooscarr that he use US instead of Spanish for his input source?

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