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Change default keyboard setting on the server to turn on "accent marks and special characters"

KevinNinow
KevinNinow ✭
August 18, 2025 edited October 27, 2025 in General Questions

We are the coordinators for our stake family search center. We have staff and patrons that are always working with people from foreign countries and need the diacritic characters and many of them are older and uncomfortable going into settings and making these changes to the system settings. Can you please change the default keyboard settings on the server to turn on "accent marks and special characters" so that when the computers reboot these characters are automatically available for the people in the center.

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  • Ashlee C.
    Ashlee C. ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 18, 2025

    @KevinNinow Thanks for the suggestion! Your suggestion will be seen by the right people if you submit it to Suggest an Idea.

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 18, 2025

    @Ashlee C. Those of us oldies who work from home would like to see the same thing as part of a toolbar we could add just for FS

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  • MDNash79
    MDNash79 ✭✭✭
    August 19, 2025

    If using Chrome, the pre-login screen has a selection feature where you can change the keyboard to the language you prefer. Special characters and accents are then enabled for your language preference (but you will still need to know the keyboard combinations to invoke them)

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