French accent letters
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Typing French on your keyboard
Standard French AZERTY puts é è à ù ç on direct keys in lowercase, and the circumflex and tréma dead keys cover â ê î ô û ë ï ü in both cases. What it does not give you is the accented capitals É È À Ù Ç or the ligatures œ and æ, which is why Alt+0201 and friends are searched so often. The 2019 AFNOR layout adds them, but adoption is slow, so most people still need the methods on this site.
Hard to type on the AZERTY (France) / AZERTY (Belgium) layout
What the accents are called in French
- acute accent
- accent aigu
- grave accent
- accent grave
- circumflex
- accent circonflexe
- umlaut / diaeresis
- tréma
- cedilla
- cédille
- ligature (æ, œ, ß)
- e dans l'o (œ), e dans l'a (æ)
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