unable-to-type-apostrophes-in-windows.md (1031B)
1 --- 2 title: "Unable to type apostrophes in Windows" 3 date: 2022-07-15T10:53:00 4 tags: ["Snippets", "Software", "Windows"] 5 --- 6 7 Randomly one day, my keyboard just straight up stopped entering the apostrophe character. No real reason why, Windows gonna Windows I guess. 8 9 Anyway, after trying to clean the contacts, unplug and replug the keyboard, reboot, try another keyboard, I gathered it has to be something in software. I'm not one to shy away from remapping keys, but quitting [my program](https://github.com/breadcat/ahk-assistant) also made no difference. 10 11 I eventually narrowed it down to it being assigned as a dead key used for shortcuts to swap between languages. The fix was mercifully pretty simple (once you know where to look). 12 13 * Windows + R 14 * `intl.cpl` 15 * Formats tab 16 * Language preferences link 17 * Language page 18 * Keyboard button in the top 5 icons 19 * Language bar options link 20 * Advanced Key Settings tab 21 * Change Key Sequence button 22 * Switch Input Language > Not Assigned 23 * Switch Keyboard Language > Not Assigned 24 * OK