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How to type French on an English keyboard
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kf4ebp
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Message 17 of 19

12 January 2010 at 4:49pm | IP Logged

OlafP wrote:

If you know vim, you're in.

Hey, that's great. I occasionally use vim, but I did not know the key combo's. Thanks!
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multilingual92
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12 January 2010 at 5:35pm | IP Logged

You can use this website http://www.lexilogos.com/ After clicking on "clavier" you'll find a lot of languages you can choose from and each one has its own keyboard.
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Learnalanguage
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13 January 2010 at 7:23am | IP Logged

BartoG wrote:

If you're using Windows, do the following:

1) Start
2) Settings
3) Control Panel
4) Regional and Language
5) Keyboard and Languages tab
6) Change Keyboard
7) Add Keyboard
8) Add US-International
9) Click on the Language Bar tab and choose where you want your icon for changing keyboards.

From then on, all you need to do is make sure you're using the International Keyboard.

To do acute accents, type ' then the letter: 'e = é
To do grave accents, type ` then the letter: `a = à
To do the circumflex, type ^ then the letter: ^a = â
To do the diaresis, type " then the letter: "e = ë
To do the cedilla, type ' then the letter c: 'c = ç

Note that if you need to use a symbol independently, you need to hit a space after it before letters that combine to form accented characters. Eg, to type "A you need to type "[space]A. Without the space, you'll get Ä.

You can also install the French keyboard if you want to learn it by using exactly the procedure outlined above depending on whether you mix French and English (I switched to the US-International keyboard in grad school for writing English language history papers that cited a lot of French sources) or are only going to be writing extended chunks of French.

This is very useful not just for French but for other languages like German, Afrikaans, etc.

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