Short of changing my keyboard or adopting the time-consuming methods for inserting French accents when using a QWERTY keyboard (I use them now and they slow me down enormously), is there a way to reprogram[?] some keys on my MacBook Pro so they input the more common accents - à, è, é at a single keystroke?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
PS The French Canadian layout:
You can also easily make a custom layout with
What keyboard are you using normally, and do you know how to type them using the US keyboard?
Peter
Try the Canadia French keyboard found in system preferences/keyboard/input sources. It is qwerty with keys for the most common accented characters.
Thanks Tom, I was unaware of this keyboard and it solves my problem.
Cheers
Chris Haine
Now.
…how to type to type brackets, quotes, question marks, and backslashes, without having to use multiple keys? 😀
Peter
French accents on QWERTY keyboards
