unwanted accents driving me nuts

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unwanted accents driving me nuts

I have a 15" MacBook Pro Retina with an international English keyboard. I live in The Netherlands, but have language preferences set to English and Region set to Netherlands (English).

My problem is that when typing accents like ", ', ˜, ˆ and ` they turn up yellowish as dead-keys in preparation for being combined with the next letter to become an accented letter. This is not what I want and it's driving me nuts... since I do a lot of typing in LaTeX documents that use their own code to produce accented letters if I need them (and I don't need them very often).

Of course, I should have ordered my MBPr with a US keyboard with the tilde/backquote key in the top left corner of the keyboard, but now that I'm stuck with this international English keyboard, is there a way of turning the automatic accent feature off?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Nov 11, 2012 1:21 PM

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Answer 1

ashakya

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Sep 13, 2017 9:01 AM in response to hajk

5 years late but made a workaround solution. osx - How to prevent the typing of special characters like "~" modifying the next keyboard input? - Stack Overflow

Hope this helps whoever stumbles upon this archaic question trying to find a solution.

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 11, 2012 4:04 PM in response to hajk

Go to system preferences/language & text/input sources and UNcheck the box for US International PC and make sure only the box for US or British is checked.

(US International PC is a layout favored by some windows users and has no necessary connection to your "international english" keyboard, which just has an extra key, standard for Europe, compared to the normal US keyboard).

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Tom Gewecke

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Sep 13, 2017 9:08 AM in response to ashakya

Could you really not solve your problem by just removing the US International PC layout and using US or British instead? That was the answer 5 years ago and should still work.