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AZERTY keyboard Apple MacBook pro retina 13' A1502 2013 - 2015. See similar items. French Azerty Keyboard For Apple Macbook Pro Retina 13' A1502 - 2014 A 2015. See similar items. You'll find QWERTY keyboards for English speakers, while French speakers get a AZERTY keyboard, Germans get QWERTZ, for example. And yet they are hidden from view on your Mac keyboard.

There are 2 popular keyboard layouts for French language.

• 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]

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• 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 Logitech webcam for mac software. , you get % and 2, respectively, instead of uppercase letters. Dell d3000 driver download. 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?

Shaun white snowboarding dmg download free. 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.

Keyboard Layouts

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Suppose you have purchased a MacBook with a U.S. keyboard layout, but are used to typing with AZERTY rather than QWERTY? Fortunately it is very easy to change your MacBook's input so that the keyboard will be mapped to AZERTY rather than QWERTY.

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Simply go to the System Preferences, go to the Keyboard section and select the Input Sources tab:

Now click the plus symbol to add a national keyboard layout. Select France or Belgium accordingly to get the AZERTY layout:

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Ensure the 'display at login' box is ticked so you can type in AZERTY on the login screen too:

Now you can go to the menu bar and switch to your French/Belgium AZERTY layout:

If you can touch type, then it probably won't be much of a problem to have the letters on the keyboard mismatching with what they actually type when you press them. However if you'd like them to match up, keyboard covers or stickers with the AZERTY layout can be purchased cheaply on Amazon:

French AZERTY keyboard stickers for Mac – red with transparent background$7.99USD

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French AZERTY keyboard stickers for Mac – white or black with solid background$6.99USD

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Of course another option for having the keys match up is to try and pry them off your MacBook's keyboard and rearrange them — however this is risky as you could easily break the mechasisms under the keys when trying to get them off. A keyboard cover is the safer option, and will also protect your MacBook from spilled food/drinks.