Apart from that detail, this mapping will just stay out of your way and feel like plain US layout when you don't need its special features. It means that if you want to use a key combination such as Alt-O in an application, you must use the left Alt key even if that's less convenient than the right one. The only difference is that the right Alt key becomes the AltGr key. The beauty of this mapping (in contrast to standard US International) is that it behaves in almost every respect like the normal US keyboard mapping and only has additional possibilities for key combinations that the US mapping doesn't use. Fortunately the old freeware solution to this problem works without any problems even under Windows 10: Download and install keyboard variant "United States International Alternate" (file altinter.zip) from. Unfortunately, by default only the standard variant with dead keys is available.
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Details of how to do this depend on your desktop environment. If it isn't, you will also have to set a parameter to get it. The "no dead keys" variant may or may not be the default.
On Linux: If I remember correctly, you usually have to choose keyboard mapping US, variant US International.It allows you to switch easily between these languages without changing keyboard mappings, and it makes it convenient to use some of the most important keys for computing, which can be a bit cumbersome with non-US national layouts. In my experience, the best option by far for writing German, French, Spanish and several other European languages, is to use the US International keyboard mapping in its non-standard but much more popular variant that requires AltGr (right Alt key) for dead keys.
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