8/27/2023 0 Comments French keyboard layout qwertyHowever, now that I live in Belgium again, there are special characters like accented letters which I need to use way more. I’ll talk more about it in another post.What happens when you like to use QWERTY keyboards, but also need to type French on a regular basis? Read below for more details!Īfter living for three years in the United States, I became accustomed to the qwerty keyboards enough that using an azerty keyboard for coding doesn’t feel right anymore. Oh, if you’re curious, the external keyboard you can see in the photograph is a Brydge. But writing for digital publication, ebooks or blog posts, I simply decided to ignore those rules as they’re barely respected-I know, ‘ French is sacred and mustn’t be touched! Burn, burn the heretic!’ But that’s me being me, not much I can do beside trying harder to be more attentive.Īnother weakness is Apple’s poor support for non-breakable spaces, something common in French after characters like ‘« ’ or ‘, ’, before ‘ »’, ‘ ?’, ‘ ’, and a few more. It is now so ingrained in my fingers that they keep on reaching out for the azerty layout, screwing my typing. The hardest thing for me is that I’ve been using azerty for more than thirty or forty years. In fact, as I told you already most of the time I find using the qwerty layout more practical. ![]() And don’t forget, Predictive Text and the integrated spellchecker will often save you the hassle to type those accents. It may seem complicated, but it is not and it’s a matter of hours at most to learn them by heart. The thing is that you quickly learn to anticipate those situations, and then it’s quiet easy to type the accent you need without any slowing down: We have words that can be written with or without an accent and that will mean two different things, like ‘ glande’–the body part that secrete substances, like the thyroid–and ‘ glandé’, like in ‘ j’ai glandé toute la journée’–meaning ‘I faffed around the whole day’ or, in slightly less negative version: ‘today, I excelled at procrastinating.’īut it can also be a problem with single letters, like between ‘ a’ (from the verb ’ avoir’, to have) and ‘ à’ (showing a direction, a movement or a position, like at, in, to and so on), where poor iOS simply can’t decide what to do. IOS is great to a certain extent but French having many subtleties and oddities, iOS will fail. Those shortcuts sync between iOS and macOS so you can use them everywhere. You know, essential stuff like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-which is merely a ‘ssupious’ away from me. And there is my secret weapon: Text Replacement, where I add a shortcut for every word I often use but have a hard time writing–or I’m too lazy to write.All accented characters are accessible through a bunch of keyboard shortcuts.I will type ‘ je suis alle à letranger cet ete’ (in this sentence, I typed a single accented character: ‘à’) to get ‘ je suis allé à l’étranger cet été’ (six accented characters). It’s far from perfect and will fail even on some strangely basic stuff, but it’s still a great help. The integrated spellchecker and predictive keyboard will do a lot of the work for you, adding accents where needed.Most of the time, I find qwerty more practical to access many characters and keys, and it’s simple enough to type accented characters– it’s even better on the iPad: To achieve that, you just need to be a very good touch typist–who doesn’t need to look at the keyboard at all–and to tell iOS to switch its virtual keyboard to azerty as it will also apply the change to any connected external keyboard.īut, as I told you, it’s not what I do. ![]() Update: To answer a question–feel free to ask your questions in the comments, making them public will help other persons find answers to what they’re looking for–when I say you can use a qwerty keyboard as if it is an azerty keyboard I mean that by pressing ‘q’ on the keyboard you will get you an ‘a’, by pressing ‘w’ you will get you a ‘z’, and so on. ![]() If it is easy to switch virtual keyboards, how do I change my external qwerty keyboard to azerty, which is the standard in France, when I need it?Įdit: to answer a question–feel free to ask questions in the comments, making them public can be interesting to other persons– you can use a qwerty keyboard as if it is an azerty one. If you are using an external keyboard, press Ctrl+space to toggle between all installed keyboards-and that includes the emoji one □ Yeah, great but how do I get accents on a qwerty keyboard?
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