Typed or pasted text special characters not working

Typed or pasted text special characters not working in Parallels 12 (in coherence mode) in Windows 10 after upgrading to macOS Sierra, just the numbers are typed in like shift is not depressed. Keyboard input works fine and copy paste from the Mac into Windows works fine.

I brought up the Keyboard Viewer in Mac (the software keyboard), when I start a KM macro (hot key trigger) the Keyboard Viewer “freaks out” with a view that looks like the Alt/Option key is depressed (a 3 second pause starts off the macro and I can see this view during then). I tried removing Alt key from the trigger, didn’t help.

I upgraded from El Capitan after getting the new Apple wireless keyboard with numeric keypad because some function buttons weren’t working.

Thanks for your help!