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Accents on French Canadian Keyboard

Anonymous
2021-05-18T17:12:16+00:00

Hello! I've started using the French Canadian keyboard setup on my standard keyboard because I'm writing in French more and more. My only problem is that everyone says that the ' button (second from the right on the caps row) should let me then press any letter and get an accent over the letter I press. Same theory for the / button (second from the right on the shift key row).

However, when I press either of those buttons, it doesn't let me then hit a letter - it just defaults to é and è. This didn't matter much - until I tried to type où.

I found this forum post: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop-winpc/accent-grave-on-french-canadian-keyboard/1b00634e-e4f8-45cc-bd09-fc2d5c618769 that seems to be about the same problem, but with no conclusive answer. The final commenter says they think that standard western keyboards are missing a key on the Z row where the Microsoft Canadian french keyboard is putting the ù.

Thanks to that commenter's advice, I was able to make a macro using ALT + 151 and assign it to my right-side shift, which I don't use anyway. However, since that post is from a few years ago, I wondered if anyone had come up with a better solution or found a way to get the ù on the Canadian French keyboard?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-18T18:13:12+00:00

    Hello, my name is Marco and I am an Independent Advisor. I will do my best to help you.

    I have a French Canadian keyboard, and I press once on the '(the first next to the ENTER key) and then on the U, which makes ù or è or à or ò etc.

    (But there are different keyboard designs, It can be the 2nd key. )

    See the photo below.

    If that doesn't work you have to set your keyboard layout to 'French (Canada)' everywhere.

    In Windows settings > Time & Language > and set " Preferred language to " French ( Canada ) , then click on the language and select " option ".

    Scroll down under " Keyboard " and choose " Canadian French " ... not " Canadian French legacy " .

    And finally, make sure that in the task bar the FR Canadian language is selected.

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