Spanish (Traditional) Keyboard Support woes

[Duthomhas]

I am currently using my son's PC, Windows 7 Home Premium.

Now I want to play around with internationalization for the FAQ, but after I activated the Spanish (Spain, Traditional Sort) Keyboard Layout I see è and û (not Spanish) instead of é and ü (Spanish). The same symptoms occur for other Spanish keyboard layouts. (I just like the traditional layout.)

I thought I would ask here before I ask on one of the (mostly useless) Windows forums... especially since many of the members here are latino and might be able to help.

What gives? How do I get my Spanish keyboard layouts to give me proper Spanish diacriticals? (The last time I played with this was on my old XP system, which worked perfectly.)

[helios]

There's two main types of Spanish layouts: the Spanish variety, which you now have configured in software, and the Latin American variety, which is what the labels on your physical keyboard read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Spanish

[Duthomhas]

Holy crap! I see it now! Thanks!

Why does the Spanish variety have those grave accents? Locality to European languages?

I've switched to the Latin American version, which is what I wanted (and thought I had).

¡Muchísimas gracias!

[helios]

The Latin American layout also has ^ and `, just in different positions and you have to hit Alt to use them. Only thing it doesn't have are the Euro sign, Ç, and superscript ^a.
I'm guessing they're there for the benefit of multilingual users.

Personally, I don't care much for having ^ as a dead key, so I made my own layout. It also has other niceties like Alt+0 for ≠, Alt+E for ∃, and a few other things.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339

[Duthomhas]

Hmm, well, I won't need the euro sign or to write ancient Spanish.

Thanks for the link!