French accents / keyboard

I've figured out how to use a keyboard that will spell check and add (occasionally) the French accents. But I'd like to control the accents since it does not always detect the correct spelling. How can I find a keyboard that had these accents? In an easy way... I'm a klutz on these things! Thanks for your help and replies!!!

if you hold your finger on the letter you require (e for example) a number of accented versions of that letter will pop up.

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French accents on QWERTY keyboards

Short of changing my keyboard or adopting the time-consuming methods for inserting French accents when using a QWERTY keyboard (I use them now and they slow me down enormously), is there a way to reprogram[?] some keys on my MacBook Pro so they input the more common accents - à, è, é at a single keystroke?

PS The French Canadian layout:
You can also easily make a custom layout with
http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

I hâve bought an iPad 4 retina and à Mini Mac. I bought allo à targus Versavu Bluetooth keyboard for m'y iPad and m'y Apple Mini. Because I ma french speaking, I need the french accents. How can I program them?

I have bought an iPad 4 retina and an Apple mini. I bought also a Targus Versavu Bluetooth keyboard. I ma french speaking and I have problems with the french accents that I can't find. I called Targus who said that I need to call Apple. How can I program the french accents on my Bluetooth keyboard on both computers? I don't want to be à ping--pong ball. Michel Mondou

I would echo BGreg's advice and stick to official Apple refurbished Minis sold through the store.apple.com site. They will have a 1-year warranty and be eligible for AppleCare. And they will have current OSX and iLife software.
The term "refurbished" is often abused by other retailers who apply it to used computers that have been returned by unhappy customers -- but have not actually been fully diagnosed or repaired.
The 1.66 GHz model you list is rather long in the tooth. At least get a Core2Duo model, rather than a CoreDuo.
The links to the offical Apple refurbs are here:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB138LL/A
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB463LL/A
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB139LL/A
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB464LL/A
You'll have to check these links daily for a week or more to find them in stock.
I'd be very leery of buying AppleCare via *bay.
But lacomputercompany appears to sell genuine boxed AppleCare at prices close to Apple's educational price for AppleCare.
On another topic you brought up ... for desktop publishing on a budget I'd strongly endorse SwiftPublisher. Just enough features, just the right price -- and to my mind, works more intuitively than Apple's Pages program.

Brand New MacB Air and i haven't been able to get passed the format which has had to be done twice because, I have a French Numeric Keyboard and Language in English. The minute I type in my password, the keyboard gives me letters that i did NOT type.

I live in Switzerland and can only buy a Mac Air with a French or German keyboard, no chance to buy an English keyboard Mac here,. When setting up I chose the French numerique keyboard, although there are two choices French or French numerique. I put in my language as English. When all was set up I came to the start page and had to put in my password, by the grace of g....I just happened to see the first letter I typed before it turned into a dot. My password which was supposed to start with the number 2 showed a french e with accent before it quikly became a dot.
Because of the dot system, this meant that I had no clue what the keyboard was typing as my password ...........and true enough my password was not accepted despite my trying all combinations. I have had to reformat twice now thanks to Apple Chat and both times my password was not accepted. I am in the process of formatting it again, this time on my own. If the Start page does not accept my password again this can only mean that the Mac left the factory with faults. I could not be more disappointed with the money spent and the time and trouble that Apple Chat and I have spent in trying to correct a brand new out of the box Mac. I have a cheap Toshiba laptop also with a french keyboard and english language which gave me no trouble at all. I am not impressed with the so called King of computers! First of all the dot system is daft. People want to be able to see and confirm their passwords before they are set for good. Second, this problem is going to give me a lot of grief. Switzerland business is not renowned for its after sales service or the time it takes to do repairs. When I had an issue with my Vaio laptop which was still under warranty, they kindly picked it up from my house, repaired and promptly returned it. How's that for good proper service.

i didn't read a lot of your 2nd paragraph, but it seems like the password is the issue, right?
do a true clean install
reboot your machine and hold down command+option+r, you should see a spinning globe - if you don't see the globe or anything that reads internet recovery, shut down and try again
at menu, chose disk utility and once there, find your HD on the left side, select the physical name and erase it as mac journaled
exit disk utlity
at menu, choose install OSX
this time, when it asks for a password just hit continue, it will let you complete without a password
you should be able to get into your laptop, now figure out what password you'll be able to use with your kb issue

French accented characters in a barcode are being dropped when scanned by a handheld scanner

We have an issue when our pdf417 barcodes contain french accented characters é,à,è, etc and are scanned by a handheld scanner. As a result Montréal is decoded as Montral (the é is dropped). We are using the Datalogic PowerScan 7000 and a Motorola Symbol DS6608 handheld scanners. We currently have a ticket open with Datalogic.
The problem does not exist when the barcode is decoded by LC Barocded Forms.Decode.
Talking to someone, they indicated that this is pretty common with handhelds. However, I did find this old post from lee sutton http://forums.adobe.com/thread/332743 where he uses a keyboard wedge?
Has anyone had to deal with a similar issue (non-english chars) via handheld?
Can anyone recommend a handheld that does read non-eng characters without the wedge?
Is there something in the encoding from Designer that i can do?

When you're decoding with the hand-held scanner, you'll need to ensure that the decoder itself supports the scanning of extended characters AND if it's a keyboard-wedge scanner, ensure that your keyboard is in French or Canadian-French mode or the simulated typing won't happen.

French accent marks in Pages

I'm having trouble inserting French accent marks into my text. I've gone through
the Help list but there does not appear to be an OPTION on my screen. Is there a simple
way of doing this?

If you are using the US keyboard layout, you do this via Option dead keys. E.g. é is Option/alt + e, release Option key, then e.
Here is a list:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
If you are not using US, tell us what.

N9 French virtual keyboard bug - unable to enter à...

On my Nokia N9, with the French virtual keyboards set, I am unable to enter essential characters such as " à " (a grave), " é " (e acute), " è " (e grave), etc.
Is there a way to enter these characters? Or a solution to this bug?
The only accented character supported for inputs is " ç " (c with a cedillla). This character is rarely used compared to à (a with grace accent), é (e with an acute accent) and è (e with a grave accent).
N900 (physical and virtual) keyboards supported all the above and other accented characters.
A weird twist, there are multiple types of quotation marks supported on the French virtual keyboard (which one would deem totally redundant).
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Akashiiii, as Pj98 says, you have to long-press on a character to see the special ones. I've got the french keyboard too and i there's no problem with mine. Just press and move your finger to left or right.
Belgian guy speaking french. Sorry for mistakes in my language ;-)

Typing French Accents

How do I type french accents? Do you use some sort of code like with a windows computer? Any help would be greatly apprectiated.
Thanks

[Option]+[e] = ´
[Option]+[`] = `
To place the accent above the vowel, just type the vowel after the accent combination. So for instance:
[Option]+[e] [e]= é
[Option]+[e] [a]= á
[Option]+[`] [e]= è
This page by Tom Gewecke has a complete list of accents and diacritics
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
Also, you can see all options by showing the Keyboard Viewer and holding [Option] and [Shift]+[Option]

French accents - empty text messages

Is anyone experiencing this? I'm a French Canadian so I use the "French (Canada)" keyboard, but that keyboard auto inserts some accents in the text le "é" or "ç". When I send those messages they appear as empty messages... and if I use the English keyboard it’s a pain when I type in French because it changes most of the word automatically when I press space...
Is that a carrier problem? Cell phone problem? I sent messages to 2 users, one with an HTC smart phone and another to a blackberry user, both received empty messages, tough both are with Telus.. Didn’t really have a chance to test with other carriers..
Any help is appreciated..
Thanks
Eric

Ok, I identified the problem as beeing with Rogers not supporting international caracters but still, there is not option to disable international caracters on the iPhone, I know some cell phones have that option, lets hope apple comes out with one in the next firmware update, or maybe rogers could do something on their text messaging servers, they already filter out those caracters on their online web page to send text messages...

French accents on laptops

I use a plug in key board to get French accents. These use the numerical part of the keyboard and I put the numeric lock on. When they are away I want to be able to use the laptop keyboard to generate these characters.
Is there any way of doing this?
Thanks
Mike

Hi
Go to Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages details.
There you can change the keyboard to French.
In the users manual you should find a French keyboard layout
Bye

ITuneU - French accent (éèàê...)

Every time I try to upload files in iTunesU with french accent in the tag, I found after the upload some characters I never write in the tags.
For example, if the name of the artist is «Hélène David» after the upload the name in tags is «Hélène DavidTS». I do not understand why the letters «TS» appear in the name.
Samething happen if I write in the tag Name «L'intégrité à l'Université de Montréal : pour une vraie réussite» after the upload the new name is «L'intégrité à l'Université de Montréal : pour une vraie réussiteTALB». Same problem with the the name of the album. I wrote «Les grandes conférences du CEFES» and this text appear in the tag «Les grandes conférences du CEFEST».
How to fix this problem ?
HP Compaq Windows XP Pro

If you are using the US keyboard layout, you do this via Option dead keys. E.g. é is Option/alt + e, release Option key, then e.
Here is a list:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
If you are not using US, tell us what.

How can I type french accents?

Hello everyone! I tried to change my keyboard to french language but I still can't type the french letters with accents! Can someone help me to how to type french accents please. Thank you

It is really easier to use the US keyboard to type French if your native language is English. Just use the shortcuts provided by laura444.
If you for some reason must use the French AZERTY layout, then you will have to learn the keys it uses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#French

How to type french accents?

Hello everyone!
I changed the keyboard from english to french to type out french accents and it does not function. Can someone help me please. I need to change my keyboard to french to be able to type with french accents for my school work. Thank you for your time.

Folks, if you set out to list all the possible ways of putting in 'French' characters, you've forgotten Unicode Hex Input. And one or two others.
The real point here is underlined by Cattus Thraex. Why does the OP need to enter these characters?
Is it for, say, an essay for History class on the age of Louis XIV? In that case, assuming she is using one of the US layouts, she doesn't really need to change anything. To spell correctly a few names of places and characters, using the traditional Mac way with the Option key ("Option", mon cher LexSchellings, not "Alt" -- let's talk Mac here) is fine.
However, if she's doing homework for a French class, and she needs to enter lengthy paragraphs, and she needs to do this more than once, then such a method is a major PITA, whose only virtue is that it's less of a PITA than any of the other methods suggested (Character Viewer indeed!) The only effective way to enter French text is to learn to type in French on a French-language keyboard layout. And there are basically three built-in options here:
(1) French (AZERTY -- there are actually two of them)
(2) Canadian French (CSA/ACNOR, based on QWERTY)
(3) Swiss French (based on QWERTZ)
She needs to choose the one closest to what she's accustomed to, and learn to touch type on it. If the OP is, as seems to be the uniform assumption, American or anglophone Canadian, hence familiar with QWERTY, then the CSA/ACNOR keyboard is best.
Finally, to be effective, she needs not only to enable the Input menu, but also to set a shortcut to cycle through enabled keyboard layouts, which is done in Keyboard Shortcuts.

Iweb with french accents.

Hi all, I'm using the great IWeb in french... I have found that when i create a new page with french accents IWEB creates a stange file name , but when this new web page have no french accents the name becomes ok. My Os X 10.4.8 is in french and my Iweb is in french to. By the way i'm not from France . I am from Québec Canada. I say that because we do not use the same keyboard configuration nor the same french language.
The question is , Is this phenomenone normal or is there something i can do to correct it.
My version of IWEB is 1.1.2 wish, i think, is the latest version of the product.
Thank in advance.
Mac Book Mac OS X (10.4.8) processor 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo

It's a known issue. Anytime you use characters outside the plain alphanumeric characters, iWeb will generate a more complex address and corresponding file/folder names. It may be as simple as replacing the characters with their hex/ascii codes or you may get a string of random characters.
My iWeb 2.0 wish is that we are allowed to make pagenames that are separate from the URLs. That would do away with some of the constraints like you describe in naming your page correctly and still having valid and legal URLs.

French USB keyboard for writing email??

I was wondering how i could get a usb french (or french-canadian) keyboard for my macbook. I often write emails to people in france, but i hate using the keyboard.
I tried to go to the canadian us store to buy the keyboard, but then when i tried to order it, it said it could only be shipped anywhere within canada.
Is there any way i can get a french keyboard in the us??

Canadian-French, Canadian-English. Yeah
If u live in canada i think apple gives u a choice.
France-French and Canadian-French have keys like AZ and QW in different places. You might want to make sure you get the one you are used to.
I just need all the accent keys.
Of course you can make all the accents on the standard US layout as well, via Option/alt key shortcuts (e.g. é is made by Option/Alt + e, then e). Or you can install a US International layout.
http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/

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