French Keyboard Layouts
There are many keyboard layouts for French language:
- French AZERTY Layout. Most popular, used by 99% of people in France, and the worst.
- New AZERTY French Keyboard Layout (2019). Created by the French government.
- French Canadian layout. Based on QWERTY layout.
- Canadian Multilingual Layout. Based on QWERTY layout.
- Bepo Layout (French), and few other ergonomic layouts.
French AZERTY Layout
New French Keyboard Layout 2019
Canadian French Layout
The Canadian French layout is based on QWERTY layout.
Canadian French layout is much better that AZERTY French, but still not very efficient.
Canadian Multilingual Layout
French Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts: dvorak-fr, bepo, bvofrak
French Letter Frequency
How do French people type accents?
I asked a friend in France how they type those accents. Here's his reply.
most people use AZERTY's accents on the first row:
- 2 → é
- 7 → è
- 9 → ç
- 0 → à
for the rest there is ù key beside m and
- ¨ e → ë
- ˆ e → ê
Using Dvorak layout on OS X i use the associative chars [ ` ´ ¨ ˆ ˆ ]+[aoeui].
all the people i know, engineers/scientists tend to stick with French AZERTY Layout ,while some geeks/coders are using QWERTY/Maltron [see Maltron Keyboard] .some authors use Bepo Layout (French) .
[from [2017-04-30 https://twitter.com/Ryuutei ]]
[see Maltron Keyboard]
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?
I'm amazed how French are not annoyed by having to always go up there. In word proccessors yes auto-correct takes care of invariable accents.
International Layouts
Western Europe Layouts
- Idiocy of International Keyboard Layouts
- QWERTZ
- AZERTY
- German
- German Ergonomic
- Canadian Multilingual Layout
- French
- New AZERTY French Keyboard Layout (2019)
- French Ergonomic
- Bepo Layout (French)
- French Letter Frequency
- Spanish Keyboard Layouts
- Portuguese Ergonomic