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GabyF

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May 31, 2021
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It looks like French characters but qwerty. I do not find in my OS X 10.8.4 system French qwerty.

I've tried pretty much all the options: US, French, Belgian, UK, Swedish etc Are always characters that are typed wrong.
 
Looks to me like someone took a French AZERTY keyboard and flipped the A/Q and W/Z key caps to make it more QWERTY-like. That was easier to do on these old MacBooks.
 
I don't think... The keys near Shift right are also wrong.
 
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Hmm, indeed, there are more keys off. Then I still believe someone flipped around the caps, just more of them. Note the positions of the parentheses: "(" is on the "5"-key in the numbers row on top, like on standard French AZERTY, but the closing ")" is in the middle row on the right (French would have it to the right of "0"). That is extremely odd - I am not aware of any layout that has "(" and ")" on different rows except Slovak, and Slovak has one directly above the other.

As far as I can tell, all the key caps are French, just the positions are off here and there. Thus I still think someone got their hands on a French Mac and fiddled with the keys to make it more English. This cannot be done perfectly, so they prioritized some keys and ended up with some leftovers like the ")".
 
I believe it is a user-altered French layout. It's probably not a Canadian French layout because of the location of ç and the dedicated € key. Further, none of Apple's layouts for languages that have ç as a frequently used letter have it on shift-9 other than French.
 
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