Hmmmm. I can’t explain why it doesn’t work on your keyboard. I thought they were universal character commands that have worked on every keyboard and computer I’ve ever owned. Maybe the alt key is stuck? I have a Yorkie who likes to sleep on my desk while I work and he occasionally drools into my keyboard and random keys around the edges get stuck. Ewww! I’m always taking it apart to clean it.
Trying to put a symbol on an a or e on my laptop doesn’t work either. I tried the ways you suggested and didn’t get anything but a bunch of a’s or e’s or accent symbols.
I wonder, this is going to sound sooooo racist lol, but is it because you are in Canada, maybe your computers are configured differently than ours in the states????
Dog slide....
Aw, a Yorkie!! When I was a dog groomer I had such anxiety grooming some Yorkies. My clippers were bigger than their legs! I groomed one that was like a squirrel on crack lol. And he’d bite for everything. So I could only use the clippers around his face. Poor thing was owned by a democrat hahahaha.
Petey