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On a Macintosh AZERTY keyboard, the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt+⇧+&, keys, followed by the vowel. In the Belgian AZERTY layout, a vowel with an acute accent can be generated by a combination of Alt Gr+ù, then the vowel. The acute accent is not available in the French layout on Windows.
On US International and UK English keyboard layouts, users can type the acute accent letter "é" by typing AltGR+E. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US English keyboard layout. In Microsoft Word, users can press Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then E or ⇧ Shift+E for "é" or "É".
The traditional Canadian French keyboard from IBM must use an ISO keyboard. The French guillemets located on the extra key are needed to type proper French, they are not optional. A dvorak version (traditional Canadian French layout) is also supported by Microsoft Windows. In this keyboard, the key names are translated to French:
Ever wondered how to add an accent, or where the degree symbol is? These printable keyboard shortcut symbols will make your life so much easier. The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A ...
The CSA keyboard, or CAN/CSA Z243.200-92, is the official keyboard layout of Canada. Often referred to as ACNOR, it is best known for its use in the Canadian computer industry for the French ACNOR keyboard layout, published as CAN/CSA Z243.200-92. [1] [2] Canadian Multilingual Standard (CMS) on Windows is based on this standard, with a few ...
Code page 863 (CCSID 863) [2] (also known as CP 863, IBM 00863, OEM 863, MS-DOS French Canada [3]) is a code page used under DOS in Canada to write French [4] (mainly in Quebec) although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.
Typewriter with French (AZERTY) keyboard: à, è, é, ç ù have dedicated keys; the circumflex and diaeresis accents have dead keys. Spanish typewriter (QWERTY keyboard) with dead keys for acute, circumflex, diaeresis and grave accents. On typewriters designed for languages that routinely use diacritics (accent marks), there are two possible ...
The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star"). The circumflex (accent circonflexe) generally denotes that an S once followed the vowel in Old French or Latin, as in fête ("party"), the Old French being feste and the Latin being festum. Whether the circumflex modifies the vowel's ...