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crude hornetBOT Nov 23, 2024, 7:47 AM

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cerulean glade Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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my AZERTY laptop is broke

vestal idol Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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Hahahaha

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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I highly recommend against using the france azerty keyboard unless you're passionate about that specific keyboard for some reason

vestal idol Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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I can't type certain characters

cerulean glade Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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vestal idol Hahahaha

but I HAVE BETTER !

vestal idol Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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What?

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Not the english default

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 7:48 AM

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Yeah, azerty can't type like half of the things french uses

cerulean glade Nov 23, 2024, 7:49 AM

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vestal idol What?

no i talk about my laptop

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 7:49 AM

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I use a canadian keyboard

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;kbd

crude hornetBOT Nov 23, 2024, 7:49 AM

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afrancophonie Le moyen le plus facile de taper les accents est d'installer une disposition de clavier mieux adaptée à ça.

anglophonie The easiest way to type accents is to install a keyboard layout designed for this.

Some good options // Quelques options conseillées :

-# How to install and change keyboard layouts // Comment installer et changer de disposition :
-# Windows, macOS, Android (Gboard), iOS

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 7:49 AM

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I highly recommend one of the first two

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The third is okay and relatively easy to learn but not practical for long term usage imo and lacks œ (not sure about guillemets but maybe those too?)

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The first two have every symbol and accent you could ever need in french

vestal idol Nov 23, 2024, 7:51 AM

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How do they differ each other

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 7:55 AM

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CMS I recommend if you're really into french and don't mind learning a handful of new symbol positions (the basic qwerty letters do not change, just symbols)
Qwerty-fr is good if you don't want to change anything you already know about your keyboard, all of the information is in addition to the basic US layout
US INTL is similar to qwerty-fr but relies on using symbols to represent the accents, so to type « mangé » you would type « mang'e »
This can be a bit annoying for example in words like « c'est » where if you don't type « c' est » you end up with « cést »

cerulean glade Nov 23, 2024, 7:56 AM

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i'll install QWERTY-FR after because it looks good

sage ingot Nov 23, 2024, 8:31 AM

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QWERTY-fr is sooooo guuuud

cerulean glade Nov 23, 2024, 8:37 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/nice-gif-21458880

Tenor

tired vessel Nov 23, 2024, 8:40 AM

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crude hornet <a:afrancophonie:586781659001651211> Le moyen le plus facile de taper les accent...

US International FTW

tired vessel Nov 23, 2024, 8:42 AM

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pine fox CMS I recommend if you're really into french and don't mind learning a handful o...

All you have to do is hit the space after typing those punctuations

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So «C'est» would be C + ' + (space) + est

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Give me US International any day

pine fox Nov 23, 2024, 8:55 AM

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tired vessel All you have to do is hit the space after typing those punctuations

Yes, but it's significantly slower than not having to do that

sage ingot Nov 23, 2024, 8:56 AM

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tired vessel US International FTW

US international is a good way to get introduced to other keyboards, but it's not great

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CMS may be faster (I wouldn't know)

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but qwerty FR is great because you can type as if it were just a normal qwerty keyboard

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BUT you also have accents by using the right-alt

vestal idol Nov 24, 2024, 3:47 PM

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I've heard k and w are rarely used letters in french

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