How do I enable french accents on my new Macbook Air keyboard

Linvanti wrote:

I have a 2020 MacBook Air and my keyboard does not allow for French accents in the way I used it before by holding in an e and the circumflex ^ would be one of the option I can select or for resume, I am looking for the accents on the e's.

Are you saying it does not work now for any app, including Mail, Safari, Notes, etc?

What exactly do you have on your list in system preferences > keyboard > input sources?

Linvanti wrote:

Hi Tom, It does not work on Mail, Safari, WhatsApp, MS Word or any other app. Under input sources it just says British and I added a French keyboard for when I write in French. Do I need to add another?

No, it should work with either British or French. Try this

Open the Terminal app (Applications > Utilities) and type

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

and then restart

On Quebéc we use the "option" key then the vowel "é" etc.

I use French Canadien and Canadian english and can always type the vowels with that accent graf in both setting and in any program.

i don't have microsoft software tho

i hope this helped!