I have been trying to install the United States International keyboard layout for Windows to be able to easily type accented vowels for Spanish but there was literally no guide anywhere for Windows 10 and above, and the way to add keyboard layouts is a bit hidden now.
Press Windows key, type Language Settings and hit enter, in the Preferred Languages section click on the language you want to use this layout for (probably English (United States)), and then a secret hidden menu pops up (can you tell I hate UI design like this?) that has an Options button, so click that. Now you should be on a page called Language options: English (United States). Towards the bottom there is a Keyboards section, and under that there should be a Add a keyboard button, so click that. A drop-down list should appear and scroll and select United States-International.
Hope this is helpful.
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I just came around this thread having the same problem. I noticed in Ubuntu 16.04 the layout to achieve this is called English (international with AltGr dead keys). So without the "US". This made me missing the option in the first place, so I hope this info is useful for others who want to achieve this particular behavior.
The keyboard layout you want is English US International with AltGr Dead Keys. It types as a normal US keyboard generally, but you can hold down the right Alt key to get accented characters and dead keys.
(Or at least, normally that works. On my 16.04 installation, the dead keys only work outside of the X11 environment. :( But hopefully on yours everything works fine.)
I live in Europe but want a US layout keyboard, and these are not common here. I heard the Dutch prefer US layout, and found G14's for sale at alternate.nl with "International English" keyboard and am wondering how this differs from US layout.
If it's just the lettering on the keycaps (adding a euro symbol or whatever) then cool. But if the keys are physically different - like the Enter key is vertical or the left shift is shortened with an extra key stuck next to it (like UK keyboards do), then I might import one from the US instead.
Has anyone bought a Zephyrus with an International English keyboard and can confirm the layout, maybe post a picture? I've done some googling and am not sure I can trust the images I see. Very often they're accompanied by a disclaimer that the image may not match the actual product..
Many thanks!
You can make the Alt/Option level of Apple's US International PC behave like the version you are used to by creating a custom keyboard layout with the app Ukelele.
For reference the Alt/Option behavior of Windows US International is here.
Note that on a Mac both left and right alt/option keys normally do the same thing, i.e. create special characters.
PS If in fact your right alt key does not produce any characters at all, then something is broken with your keyboard or software.
An experimental keyboard that tries to conform to the Windows version can be found here.
Note: If you want something like one of the Linux versions of "US International" which have a dozen or more dead keys for making a huge number of diacritic and other characters, then the Apple equivalent is ABC Extended, whose layout is however quite different. For that see this earlier question.
The closest you'll find on macOS is the English - Irish layout for áéíóú, you don't need to type alt+e+a for á, just alt+a. If you want to match US_intl character by character, you'll need to create your own .keylayout with Ukelele and drop it under /Library/Keyboard Layouts.