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French Keyboard ?

lazarusbf

lazarusbf

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Mar 6, 2010
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Hello

i'm located in Belgium and will order a new MBP in the upcoming weeks on the (US) AppleStore. Of course i'll have it delivered to a friend of mine's who lives in the USA and comes back over here in May so in my order i will specify the french keyboard option BUT:

can anyone tell if this is a proper french keyboard (azerty) or a canadian (qwerty and accents) french ?

thanks for your answers :)
 
lazarusbf said:
Hello

i'm located in Belgium and will order a new MBP in the upcoming weeks on the (US) AppleStore. Of course i'll have it delivered to a friend of mine's who lives in the USA and comes back over here in May so in my order i will specify the french keyboard option BUT:

can anyone tell if this is a proper french keyboard (azerty) or a canadian (qwerty and accents) french ?

thanks for your answers :)
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i don't know the answer to your question but i think you can't order from US Apple store from Belgium unless you have an american credit card. If it did i would order to a friend's house in USA, also i am form Turkey. If you know a way please let me know.
 
I will tell you later on.
I am not planning to order it before early May.

To me it should work, i think i saw the possibility of 'gift', meaning you could order it from abroad/overseas if delivered in the USA.

Otherwise no big deal, i will transfer the money to my mate and he will order it himself.
 
Hello
re-activating my topic as i'm about to order my MBP for good now.

i want to know exactly what kind of keyboard a 'french' keyboard is on the US Applestore.
i cannot ask myself on Apple's site as i have no login, i have never had a mac so far.
can anyone help or even ask the question by email for me please ?

this is rather important as if their so-called 'french' keyboard is not the proper keyboard we have here in Europe (with accents on letter like é-è-à-ù etc), that would mean i would still buy my MBP (regular US keyboard then) in the USA but then not on the AStore but elsewhere where i could avoid taxes for delivery to Pennsylvania (+7%).

please please please someone take 1 minute to ask by phone/mail to the Apple Helpdesk/hotline and get me an accurate answer..that would be very nice from you.

thanks a million :)
 
Why don't you try and call 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask them? I reckon it will be a French Canadian keyboard.
I always get QWERTY keyboards (I'm French though), they are so much more convenient when it comes to numbers!!
Besides, you can do any accent by pressing an extra key with QWERTY Macs (Option-E etc.)
 
Why bother to order still from the US? The EUR is weaker every day, the Dollar is stronger every day. I would check how much profit you will make before ordering it here in the US. Will the 100EUR difference make a big difference for you in the end?

I bought a MBP 13" french keyboard for my wife and it is just like in French Azerty that she knows it.

*EDIT*
And I agree with Piwi, QWERTY feels good. It is just a habit to write accents.
I am from Belgium as well but moved over to the US 2,5years ago and did the switchover without any issues.
 
Is it really worth the hassle to order from the US?

About a month back I was considering buying a i7 15" MBP from UK Applestore, with 140€ saving on the french Applestore. But a few days ago the difference was just 40€ due to changes of the pound against the euro.


Also, my six year PBG4 (my only comp so far!) has a french keyboard. Its no problem for numbers, just press the F6 key.
 
piwi said:
Why don't you try and call 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask them? I reckon it will be a French Canadian keyboard.
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I'm located in Belgium, i do not have access to such phone numbers.

What's a french canadian keyboard ?
I went to Google, i found this

keybca.gif


So i have the "é" letter only and no à/ù/è apparently. Definitely going for the usual US keyboard then.

piwi said:
Besides, you can do any accent by pressing an extra key with QWERTY Macs (Option-E etc.)
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That's good to know, thanks. Is it boring to do when doing this a lot ?


BlackZ said:
Why bother to order still from the US? The EUR is weaker every day, the Dollar is stronger every day. I would check how much profit you will make before ordering it here in the US. Will the 100EUR difference make a big difference for you in the end?
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I'm still bothering to order in the US since i transfered a long time ago over 3.000$ to my friend living in Pittsburgh. I knew the $ would be stronger now so i
was clever on this issue. I'm still saving over 600$ in my order. And as i say, i will save even more if i go for the US keyboard through Amazon or another site that doesn't charge taxes within US states (while the AS charge 7%).
 
It'll be a QWERTY keyboard, as it is everywhere in the world but france and belgium.

I have the french canadian keyboard, I can always take a picture of it if you're worried.
 
lazarusbf said:
I'm located in Belgium, i do not have access to such phone numbers.

What's a french canadian keyboard ?
I went to Google, i found this

keybca.gif


So i have the "é" letter only and no à/ù/è apparently. Definitely going for the usual US keyboard then.
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Yes that would be a french canadian keyboard. Seriously, they are an even greater pain when compared to the french AZERTY. Go QWERTY ;)

That's good to know, thanks. Is it boring to do when doing this a lot ?
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Nah you get used to it. Much better for numbers and special characters (no more alt-gr for the @ or for anything for that matter)

I'm still bothering to order in the US since i transfered a long time ago over 3.000$ to my friend living in Pittsburgh. I knew the $ would be stronger now so i
was clever on this issue. I'm still saving over 600$ in my order. And as i say, i will save even more if i go for the US keyboard through Amazon or another site that doesn't charge taxes within US states (while the AS charge 7%).
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I just googled french-canadian keyboard:

kb-lpfrc-y.jpg


I figure that it is usable. I've never had to switch layouts so drastically though so I can't say too much. But I use a qwerty to type in Japanese and Korean daily and I've never had much of a problem customizing my keyboard.
 
What you guys are showing isn't Apple's French Canadian keyboard. It has all the accents on it. I got my macbook as the english qwerty setup as I where the accents are and just switch mac os to French when I'm typing in French for an extended period.

http://store.apple.com/xf/product/MB110C/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg&mco=MTA5ODI0MTY

just zoom to see what's the layout. If you use a regular US keyboard and switch it to French Canadian, the À goes on top of the return.
 
Otaillon said:
I live in Canada (Québec) and have a french qwerty on my MBP 13''

Here's a picture

dsc2745.jpg
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That's answering my question ! Very nice.
So finally french canadian apple keyboards DO feature all commons letters we use over here, i see é-è-à-ù-ç characters.

Now thanks to your picture, i'm in real dilemma. :rolleyes:
 
haha i'm a French moving to Canada soon, i will order the MBP before my move because it is causing me headaches to learn how to use new keyboards again and again (last time was international QWERTY in Asia, next time would be Canadian QWERTY, so different again)
so i decided to keep my habits and a French AZERTY :D
 
If you are used to AZERTY, you can simply change the layout in software to French, the only key you won't have is the <> Key. You can always put stickers on the keys in the way you want them, or switch them around, so they make sense to you.

TEG
 
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