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Quick Accent: to add opening "¡" and "¿" as options #26370

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gusmerle opened this issue May 26, 2023 · 5 comments
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Quick Accent: to add opening "¡" and "¿" as options #26370

gusmerle opened this issue May 26, 2023 · 5 comments
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Idea-Enhancement New feature or request on an existing product Product-Quick Accent Refers to the Quick Accent PowerToy Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

Using the US keyboard as reference, the "1" key has the "!" sign for uppercase. It would be great for Quick Accent to show the opening exclamation sign "¡" used in Spanish to show as an option for "1".
Similarly, the "/" key has the "?" sign for uppercase. Quick Accent could show the opening question mark "¿" as an option for "/".

Scenario when this would be used?

This would be useful for Spanish text written on US keyboards, or other keyboards missing these signs.

Supporting information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_question_and_exclamation_marks

@gusmerle gusmerle added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label May 26, 2023
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tim-hy commented Jul 4, 2023

I came searching for the same thing as you. Turns out that "¿" and "¡" are both available under the "," key (on UK QWERTY layout), as referenced here #22442 (comment).

However, I am confused as to why "¡" does not appear under the "Spanish" character set, but "¿" does. That might be an issue worth raising.

EDIT
Had a further dive into the issues backlog and found that the missing "¡" in Spanish character set will be fixed as of 0.71 (#26099 (comment)). All good!

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gusmerle commented Jul 4, 2023

Thank you for looking this up, but this response does not completely address my request. I don't mean to "somewhere" add the "¡" and "¿" signs, but to have quick accent show "¡" as an option on the same key where "!" shows, and "¿" as an option on the same key where "?" shows, to make tem easy to find. For example, we have all kind of useful signs hidden in the US Intl keyboard, that when you need them and are not the most frequently used ones, you have to go "key hunting" to see which one it was. That's why I like the Quick Accent option to show the alternatives to a character used in other languages as options in the overhead. UsIntl keyboard actually has "¿" as [AltGr]-"/" (on "?") and "¡" on [AltGr]-"1" (on "!"), but UsIntl has its own drawbacks, like spaces required after symbols commonly used in English or programming for the symbols to show.

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tim-hy commented Jul 4, 2023

Ah I see, I misunderstood your suggestion. I agree, being able to change the keybinds for some/all symbols would be useful.

@TheJoeFin TheJoeFin added Idea-Enhancement New feature or request on an existing product Product-Quick Accent Refers to the Quick Accent PowerToy labels Oct 9, 2023
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/dup #20618

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Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@microsoft-github-policy-service microsoft-github-policy-service bot added Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. and removed Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams labels Oct 15, 2023
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