Typing Spanish á, é, í, ó, ú characters?

[tarmiricmi]

Hello,
having started learning Spanish (coming from Italian), I switched to Spanish Mexican keyboard in Windows.
There are no dedicated keys for umlauted vowels, ie. á, é, í, ó, ú.

Italian offers its versions of vowels available as a separate key.

Now one can use Alt+ number combinations as follows:

Alt+ 130 =é
Alt +160 = á
Alt +161 = í
Alt +162 = ó
Alt +163 = ú

but it is slow and clumsy.

Obviously I don't compare those languages (like them both) but, how do you guys type those Spanish letters?

Regards

 

[Ralston18]

Remapping perhaps?

Start here:

https://guides.mtholyoke.edu/c.php?g=1242923&p=9095413

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/windows-keyboard-layouts

Hopefully you will be able to do some testing with various keyboards and options.

A second/separate keyboard may be more straight forward. Inconvenience being the need to unplug and replug as keyboards need to be swapped.

That problem could be resolved with a simple reverse KVM switch.

 

[tarmiricmi]

Remapping perhaps?

Start here:

https://guides.mtholyoke.edu/c.php?g=1242923&p=9095413

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/windows-keyboard-layouts

Hopefully you will be able to do some testing with various keyboards and options.

A second/separate keyboard may be more straight forward. Inconvenience being the need to unplug and replug as keyboards need to be swapped.

That problem could be resolved with a simple reverse KVM switch.

This is a great technical answer, but there must be a simpler way to type those additional Spanish characters. I mean, how do they fast-type in their language (we are talking strictly about Windows)? It's not a Chinese Pinyin. There is enough space to assign by default (without any custom solutions) dedicated keys as in Italian.

Inside MS Office, one can type Ctrl + ' + desired vowel to get the result. But it only works in Office which is limiting.

I've researched a bit and it really seems that someone really messed up while creating Spanish variants of keyboards in Windows by excluding accented vowel characters. It should be there by default just as in any other language written in Latin Alphabet.

Now the most probable solution for me would be using this add on:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqomBfuAw40


This basically introduces new kind of keyboard and solves the problems not only with Spanish but other characters including symbols.

Again I am really baffled how this issue even exists for such a major language like Spanish.