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lechinois66

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Can anyone tell me how to get the accents from the english keyboard? It seems really hard to get most of them...
 
They're typed with the Option key (which I think is called Alt on a British keyboard).

Option-e for acute, followed by the letter, eg. Option-e then a for á.
Option-i for circumflex
Option-` for grave
Option-c for cedilla

Are there any others? I haven't done French since my first year of high school 😛
 
French accents on a bilingual keyboard

This is my first IMac and I ordered a bilingual keyboard so I could have the French accents. Why am I not getting them? Worse, the keys on the keyboard don<t match (as you can see I can<t even find the apostrophe?) HELP, please!
 
When I want to type in French (I'm a French speaker), I just use the French AZERTY keyboard and just switch back and forth. It makes it so much easier while typing out a paper. It takes a while to get used to AZERTY but once you get it, it becomes second nature typing in full English and French on it. After a long paper, I always make mistakes writing in English on the English keyboard. hehe
 
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