Long press of some letters changes language

[frank1492]

When typing if some letters are held down too long, the typed character changes to another language, for example, n changes to the French variation with a cedilla, which is occasionally annoying. I have chosen English and no other languages and "multilingual" is greyed out, yet "Gboard" is still labeled as "multilingual." How do I fix this, have spent hours. Thanks for help.

 

[Milo Williamson]

When typing if some letters are held down too long, the typed character changes to another language, for example, n changes to the French variation with a cedilla, which is occasionally annoying. I have chosen English and no other languages and "multilingual" is greyed out, yet "Gboard" is still labeled as "multilingual." How do I fix this, have spent hours. Thanks for help.

Easy, just only download English as your own word, but yeah it is a default thing it does. Switch over to other keyboards too. (I.E. Grammarly) That only has English on it.

 

[puppykickr]

I would use a different keyboard.
There are so many that are better than GBoard.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/

 

[mikedt]

Have you tried clearing the data and cache for the Gboard app, in-case there's something funky going on with it? .

I sometimes use Gboard occasionally myself, which is i set for multilingual, for English(UK) and Chinese(Simplified characters). It never shows any "French variation with a cedilla" or whatever. When I hold down it types the character in the top right of the key. As shown in this screen-shot.

Usually I use Switftkey, and I definitely recommend it.

 

[frank1492]

Thanks all for the info. I have increased the long press delay to max and that's a good work-around. I now realize changing the language is a default but odd it happens with only English specified. Will try a new keyboard eventually. Thanks again.