WINDOWS KEYBOARD MAPPING MESSED UP INSTALL

ClarificationД®ven if an answer doesn't address my specific examples, I would still accept it if it provided enough detail for me to find the layout and tweak it according to my needs.

WINDOWS KEYBOARD MAPPING MESSED UP INSTALL

The problem machine was a fresh install of Oneiric, but I kept my old $HOME when I did the fresh install. I have no problems with the second machine. I just tested this on my other machine, also running Oneiric, but upgraded from previous versions. How can I change the acute accent on the A key to a proper dead key? Perhaps the more general version of this is: How can I tweak my keyboard layout? Update (For example, in the text input box as I type this, it looks the same as the proper character, but when displayed on the site for all so see, it looks very wrong-at least on my machine.) Ditto for all other characters with an acute accent, though some are available directly as pre-composed characters: For example, Right Alt+ I yields 'Г'. This hybrid looks like the proper 'Г©' in some settings, but it isn't the same character and doesn't always work. But instead of a dead key for the acute accent, it uses a method for combining characters to create the hybrid 'МЃe'. I expect Right Alt+ A, E to do the trick. But there's no way to type 'Г©', which is probably the accented letter I type the most.

And another method works: Right Alt+ `, E produces 'ГЁ', also as expected. In Oneiric, however, the layout is messed up. For a long time, I've had my keyboard configured to use the layout currently known as 'English (international AltGr dead keys).' I like this layout because without any modifier keys, it's identical to the US English keyboard, but when I hold Right Alt I can get accented letters and other characters not available on a standard US English keyboard.

Windows keyboard mapping messed up