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How to type French-specific characters on a standard US keyboard on Windows using French-Canada layout

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It is often frustrating for learners of French language when it is not possible to type a specific character. Some people cut-and-paste them from MS Word, which has an automatic spellchecker-corrector, some use Alt+nnnn combinations... But this is cumbersome.

The easiest way for a person using MS Windows and owning a Standard-US physical keyboard is to install French (Canada) layout. French(Canada) layout is more convenient to use for previous Standard-US keyboard user comparing to French(France) layout because the vast majority of letters are in the same places as in the Standard-US keyboard (QWERTY - not AZERTY).

The problem is that even in French(Canada) layout some letters are not obvious how to type. Especially so are the letters: æ, œ, ï, ÿ, ë, ù.

But let's formulate the question in a generic form:

How to type the following letters on the French(Canada) keyboard:

àâæ        (à, câlin, æsthésie)       [accent aigu, accent circonflexe, e dans l'a]ç            (ça)                       [cédille]èéêë      (mère, parlé, être, Noël)  [accent grave, ...]îï          (naître, naïve)            [tréma]ôœ          (côte, œuf)                [e dans l'o]ùûü        (où, coûter, capharnaüm)ÿ            (Croÿ)

I searched on internet but could not find a satisfactory answer.


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