Quck Accent Unintentionally being triggered

[LaLista209]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.64.0

Installation method

GitHub, PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Quick Accent

Steps to reproduce

I was on word and I used the ctrl+shift+arrow keys to select whole words and then the quick accent menu for the letter 'L' came up for no reason whatsoever.

✔️ Expected Behavior

I was not expecting Quick Accent to launch.

❌ Actual Behavior

Quick Accent Launched for the letter 'L'

Other Software

Microsoft Word (Office 365): Version: 2209, Build: 15629.20258 (Click-to-Run).

[Gluups]

You have helped me a lot, as I had a problem with vowels in French, that were improperly accentuated (and the subsequent space suppressed). Once I knew it was Quick Accent (I had forgotten the name), I got rid of the problem by increasing the delay. Oh, so I realize that I should rather inactivate Quick Accent until the problem is addressed (or perhaps not, as I more recentlyl learned that there are several ways to use Quick Accent). For your case perhaps it would be a good idea to verify for what languages Quick Accent is activated. It is the third field of its configuration.

[jaimecbernardo]

Did this happen once only or is it happening consistently? Perhaps you had just typed a l and then pressed the arrow key on that time? I've tried to replicate this on Word but without success.

Can you figure out a way to trigger this?

/needinfo

[LaLista209]

sorry, i have tried again, but could not trigger it the same way that i had before, although i had thought that i had been pressing 'l' as well, but tehn i thought 'no, i cant have been pressing L as the arrow keys and L.Ctrl + L.Shift are very far away from each other' i cannot find another trigger, sorry.

[Gluups]

Hello, I you allow me ... As I witnessed before in the thread, I have the alerts for it, and I see a difficulty to find the symptoms again. So, I made two tests. At the beginning, I have Quick Accent set for French only. "l space" gives nothing. Then I have set Quick Accent for all available languages. Then "l space" gives a choice between six accents. I should have liked to put you a screen copy, but this time I do not see the button for it, that I saw yesterday..

I do not know whether it is possible that this setting is changed accidentally, but maybe it can be a basis of reflection.

[LaLista209]

That is a possibility..

[Gluups]

That is a possibility..

To be honest, it is somewhat frustrating that you are not tempted to verify.

[LaLista209]

Okay, sorry. If I am to be honest, I did not really understand much of what you put there..

What i did understand, was that you tried to use QuickAccent in both French and All. French wielding no results for 'I', and All wielding 6. I understand that in French 'I' does have an accent, maybe two or three, (i do not remember French that well) so that is the problem? Sorry but I am quite confused..

[Gluups]

Oh, I am not aware of that. Naturally, if you know a French language with accents on the l ...

[LaLista209]

oh? i believe the i accents are as follows: i, î, í, ì so four accents i think

[Gluups]

Oh, so it was i ? I understood l … as lower, link ... And of course the accents are not the same. Anyway I provided a screen copy in another thread.

[LaLista209]

oh Sorry, I thought that you was referring to i, it was L, sorry, i have confused myself

[crutkas]

feel this is #20408

[crutkas]

/dup https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/20408

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