French Keyboard Layouts

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]

[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?

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.