How Do French People Type Accented Characters?
I asked a friend in France how they type those accents. Here's his reply.
How do French people type accents?
most people use French AZERTY Layout 's accents on the number row:
- 2 → é
- 7 → è
- 9 → ç
- 0 → à
for the rest there is ù key beside m and Dead Keys on the right of P:
- ¨ e → ë
- ˆ e → ê
Using Dvorak layout on OS X i use the associative chars ` ´ ¨ ˆ ˆ with option key plus a o e u i .
all the people i know, engineers/scientists tend to stick with French AZERTY Layout ，while some geeks/coders are using QWERTY/Maltron [see Maltron Keyboard] ．some authors use Bepo Layout (French) .
[from https://twitter.com/Ryuutei]
when in online chat, do people bother to type é è à etc properly? or do they just use e a?
Depends on the person but most of the time they type the accents, even when it's not really useful like: 'télé'(TV)
it seems awful to type all those accents. Is there some auto-add-accent in word processor?
I'm amazed how French are not annoyed by having to always go up there. In word proccessors yes auto-correct takes care of invariable accents.
What Happens If French Remove Accent Marks
lol. grok on french sans accent marks
