Editing QWERTY (section)

===US-International <span class="anchor" id="US-international"></span><span class="anchor" id="US International"></span><span class="anchor" id="US international"></span>===

[[File:KB US-International.svg|thumb|upright 1.5|US-International keyboard layout (Windows)]]
Windows provides an alternative layout for a US keyboard to type diacritics, called the US-International layout. Linux and [[ChromeOS]] (which calls it the International/Extended keyboard{{cn|date=December 2023}}) also provide this layout with slight modifications such as many more {{keypress|AltGr}} combinations.

The layout is installed from the settings panel.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 How to use the United States-International keyboard layout in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304220917/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 |date=4 March 2015 }}, Microsoft, 17 August 2009</ref> The additional functions (shown in blue) may or may not be engraved on the keyboard, but are always functional. It can be used to type most major languages from Western Europe: [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[English language|English]], [[Faroese language|Faroese]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[German language|German]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Scots Gaelic]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and [[Swedish language|Swedish]]. It is not sufficient for [[French language|French]] because it lacks the grapheme “[[Œ|œ/Œ]]” (as does every keyboard layout provided by Windows except the [[CSA keyboard|Canadian multilingual standard keyboard]]). Some less common western and central European languages (such as [[Welsh language|Welsh]], [[Maltese language|Maltese]], [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]), are not fully supported. If the keyboard does not have an {{keypress|AltGr}} key, the right-hand {{keypress|Alt}} is used. If that key does not exist (which is true of many laptops) the combination {{keypress|Ctrl|Alt}} works as well.

This layout uses keys {{Key press|'}}, {{Key press|`}}, {{Key press|"}}, {{Key press|^}} and {{Key press|~}} as [[dead key]]s to generate characters with diacritics by pressing the appropriate key, then the letter on the keyboard. Only certain letters such as vowels and "n", work, otherwise the symbol is produced followed by the typed letter. To get only the symbol ', `, ", ^ and ~, press the {{Key press|Spacebar}} after the key.

* {{Key press|'}} + vowel → vowel with acute accent, e.g., {{Key press|'|e}} → é
* {{Key press|`}} + vowel → vowel with grave accent, e.g., {{Key press|`|e}} → è
* {{Key press|"}} + vowel → vowel with diaeresis (or umlaut), e.g., {{Key press|"|e}} → ë
* {{Key press|^}} + vowel → vowel with circumflex accent, e.g., {{Key press|^|e}} → ê
* {{Key press|~}} + {{Key press|a}}, {{Key press|n}} or {{Key press|o}} → letter with tilde, e.g. {{Key press|~|n}} → ñ, {{Key press|~|o}} → õ
* {{Key press|'}} + {{Key press|c}} → ç (Windows) or ć (X11)

The layout is not entirely transparent to users familiar with the conventional US layout as the dead keys act different (they don't appear immediately and produce accented letters depending on what letter is typed next). This could be disconcerting on a machine for shared or public use. There are alternatives, such as requiring {{keypress|AltGr}} to be held down to get the dead-key function.

====US-International in the Netherlands====
[[File:Acer SF114-32 keyboard closeup.jpg|thumb|right|Closeup of Dutch laptop keyboard with an engraved euro sign {{char|€}}]]
The [[#Dutch (Netherlands)|Dutch layout]] is historical, and keyboards with this layout are rarely used. Instead, the standard keyboard layout in the [[Netherlands]] is US-International, as the [[Dutch language]] heavily [[Dutch orthography#Diacritics|relies on diacritics]] and the US-International keyboard provides easy access to diacritics using [[dead keys]]. While many US keyboards do not have {{Key press|AltGr}} or extra US-International characters engraved on them, Dutch keyboards typically have the {{Key press|AltGr}} engraved at the location of the right {{Key press|Alt}} key, and have the [[euro sign]] {{char|€}} engraved next to the {{Key press|5}} key.
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