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There are 2 popular keyboard layouts for French language.
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- French AZERTY layout, used in France. It's similar to QWERTY layout.
- French Canadian layout, used in Quebec part of Canada. It's similar to QWERTY layout.
And there are several ergonomic layouts for French, most popular is Bépo.
French AZERTY Layout
[see Alt Graph Key, Compose Key, Dead Key]
Note:
- The number row is Inverted. To type numbers, you have to press Shift key.
- Odd position of m
The French AZERTY Layout, is one of the most inefficient layout possible.
2017-07-19 Max P said:
Besides swapping A Q and placing the period on shift semicolon, the AZERTY layout is incredibly idiotic for at least its placement of accents:
① the letter ù is at QWERTY's apostrophe ' place, very convenient to hit. The problem is that this letter is used in only one word, “où” (meaning “where”), and nowhere else. At the same time, the most common accented letteré is at key 2. I think it's more common than many consonants, often there are several é's in one word (préférée, réélu etc.)
② But if you hitShift+ùorShift+é, you get % and 2, respectively, instead of uppercase letters. To type uppercase Ù, you have to pressAltGraph+7, thenShift+u. There is no way to type uppercase É.
③ There's a dedicated dead circumflex ^anddiaeresis¨ key to the right of p. This is a good design: circumflex can be paired with any vowel (î ê ô û â), yet is not very frequent; diaeresis is much less common and it's ok to put in on shifted key. Then they decided to add dead key with grave` accent, doubling à è ù keys, and for whatever reason dead nasalization symbol the tilde ~, which is not used in French at all! But there's no dead acute accent´, used for the most common é letter.
Because of this design, many french people now think that uppercase letters are never written with diacritics, which is not right. That's sad.
[see Idiocy of Keyboard Layouts: QWERTZ, AZERTY]
Canadian French Layout
[see Apple Keyboards ⌨]
The Canadian French layout is based on QWERTY layout.
Canadian French layout is much better that AZERTY French, but still not very efficient.
French Keyboard Ergonomic Layout
French Letter Frequency
How Do French People Type the Accents?
I asked a native French friend how French people type those accents. Here's his reply.
How do French people type accents?
most people use AZERTY's accents on the first row:
- 2 → é
- 7 → è
- 9 → ç
- 0 → à
for the rest there isùkey besidemand
- ¨e → ë
- ˆe → ê
Using Dvorak layout on OS Xi use the associative chars [`´¨ˆˆ]+[aoeui].
all the people i know, engineers/scientists tend to stick with AZERTY,while some geeks/coders are using QWERTY/Maltron.some authors use BEPO.
[fromhttps://twitter.com/Ryuutei]
[see Maltron Keyboard]
[see Maltron vs Dvorak keyboard Layout]
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 or such?
I'm amazed how French are not annoyed by having to always go upthere.In word proccessors yes auto-correct takes care of invariable accents.
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