Keyboard Layouts for Accents
Users discuss challenges and solutions for typing accented characters and special symbols using various keyboard layouts like US International, AltGr, dead keys, and compose keys, especially on non-English layouts such as AZERTY, QWERTZ, and multilingual setups for programming and multilingual typing.
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It is weird it's not altgr-' and altgr-^ that activate accents.
You might want to switch to the Spanish keyboard. It's qwerty and has easy access to accents, plus ç (and ñ that you don't need anyway :))
Seems weird to have specific keys for à é è when you could just combine them e.g. '+a '+e as is the case in the US international keyboards. Ditto for ç
Have you tried the Canadian-French layout? It’s pretty much what you were looking for ;)
Unfortunately doesn't work for us that access [ via the AltGr layer. Unless someone knows of a workaround?
On a german keyboard layout that's somewhere between hardly typeable (requires 3 keys) on Mac and impossible on other OSes (Ctrl+AltGr == AltGr == No Ctrl)
The fix is to buy US keyboards and configure a compose key for non-a-z characters.
Support for an azerty keyboard would be great :)
Sounds more like a job for the keyboard layout itself ?https://norme-azerty.fr/en/(With good support for all(?) the Latin-based languages, and also Greek... I kind of wish they had managed to fit Cyrillic on another mode too !)P.S.: better than the old AZERTY for math & code too !
I use US International layout, and Alt Gr (right Alt) + 5 (or maybe 6) works.