Dorico 5 weird input issue- no tuplets, stacc, zoom, etc on typing keyboard

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Hello, I wanted to reach out with an issue preventing any typed application of stacc. and accents, inputting tuplets, and zoom, etc.

I am using the most updated Dorico 5.1.51 on Macbook pro 2019 -Sequoia 15.

Wondering if anyone might be having a similar issue:

a few keyboard (of macbook pro) keys (& key combos) for such things as inputting tuplets (shift+;) are not working.

zoom is not working (Command -+)

[ and ] (accent and staccato) are also not working either.

I have tried in multiple projects and started new projects to try as well, but the issue remains.

Do you happen to know of a fix?

Thanks in Advance!

Joe

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A total guess: Whenever I’ve had (or seen someone else have) this kind of situation, it’s because they accidentally changed the keyboard layout. Does the right side of your menu bar show “US”?

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worked! Thanks for the tip! I had recently switched laptop to Español. Just set back to English and reset the computer. Problem resolved. Wish I could keep the laptop in ES and use the keyboard in EN, but does not seem to work.

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I fiddled a bit with language and keyboard settings and it seems any international keyboard on the macbook profile causes the error. Even if it isn’t active, it appears to cause the issue. I experienced the problem until I deleted the ES keyboard

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  1. Setting the keyboard layout should be effective immediately, no restart or even relaunching Dorico needed. Let us know if you experience otherwise.
  2. In System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources, I had to uncheck “Automatically switch to a document’s input source” because certain windows obstinately kept setting it to a previous language. Do you use that setting? What happens if you turn it off?