I HQD q go on ,y nezly instqllled French keyboqrd; just for the fun of it qnd found it ,ore inconvenient by fqr thqn the Ger,qn; zhich is the sq,e qs the English but zith Y qnd Z szqpped round:///
Enough of this. Have a close look at the letter placings above and you'll see that QWERTY has gone out the window in favour of AZERTY(!) Numbers cannot be imputted without the shift key as the top row is partially devoted to accented characters: éèçà; the keys to the right of P when tapped before a vowel adds a circumflex: âêîôû; M sits where our semicolon usually resides and the @/' key is ù/% in French.
Très confusante!
And all I have to ask you after hacking your way through this is:
Comment ça va?
Je suis bien. Je prefere mon clavier espgnol bien que le francais et l'allemant sont interessants!
ReplyDeleteMoi, il me faudra apprendre ces layouts stupides par-ce-qu'il n'y a pas d'autre choix.
ReplyDeleteJ'ai esseye de programmer mon ordinateur pour pouvoir inputter en francais bien qu'en allemand, mais il n'en veut pas...
qu'est-ce-que je peux faire quand le technologie me laisse si confuse?
Sorry about the lack of accent marks, but as you can see, I still cannot get the hang of these international keyboards at all. At the moment I'm in UK International (Welsh).... luuurvely.
So your learning French now?
ReplyDeleteJanice~
I laughed my head off about your keyboard war (so don't be sorry for your not at all stupid comment) You can't imagine when you have to fight this problem in reality !
ReplyDeleteWhen I used the computer of my friend in Eastbourne I got crazy with the Querty keyboard because I learned and have worked on Azerty my whole life ! When I was in Egypt it was also Querty but with some arabic signs ! I also got crazy with the Quertz thing, because I type without looking so I don't know where the letters are ! I tell you it was a catastrophe. Now I have my little notebook not bigger then a book, with my Azerty keyboard and I can type in peace wherever I am !
Hey Gled! Glad to see that you're still posting, strange keyboard or not. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMy keyboard !!! Youpeee !
ReplyDeleteFélicitations ! ton français est très bien !
Have you been taking fish oil???? ;)
ReplyDeleteGattina: Many thanks for your kind comment.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad someone understands because I'm a touch typist too (I knew computers were the future so like half the boys in my class, I did typing at business college). The problem, of course, is that these strange letter positions aren't even visualy to be seen on my UK keyboard... which is v frustrating.
I found one with EVERY special character I could need called US International, where you press Alt Gr and p for example for o-umlaut. Only in blogger this automatically publishes my half-finished post so it's useless. Also I need to input accents with ONE keystroke if I can, not two.
I think I'm just going to have to get used to the QWERTZ layout. I'm doing OK with it in German but in English it does my brainbox in.
As for the French one... I don't know if I could ever master that!!
Whitenoise: ~ great to hear from ya!
It's not the keyboard itself that's strange. That would be more doable. It's that I've set my computer to English UK, English UK international (with special symbols), USA International (which does nearly every major language, but like the UK international you need 2 keystrokes e.g. for a ß or ö or ä sign. So the German version is by far the best if you are typing in German bc you can get every letter in the German alphabet with just one keystroke. The problem is that y and z are in opposite places and of course this is a standard UK keyboard, so unless I stick horrible stickers all over my keys I'm just going to have to learn by heart where these letters are...
... the fact that I touch-type might be an advantage here.
Anyway how ARE you. I hope all the hassles of the past have disappeared..?
Akelamalu: yeah I luuurve fish but I don't take the oil, I just eat cans and cans of sardines. Why do you ask..?
ReplyDeleteps: so sorry I didn't ignore you there's something wrong with my comments where it tells me e.g. I have 2 then I click and there's 5 or more, then I answer them, look again and someone else has appeared between my answer and the last comment and it looks like I'm just ignoring you which is NOT so
Bugga. I wasn't going to take the laptop to France but I need to be able to google quickly and find stuff so an internet cafe aint gonna help is it now! I touch type about 90wpm so this one's going to do my head in for a start. Expect wonky blog posts or . . yeh, I'll take the laptop. Thanks for this, I had no idea French keyboards were different.
ReplyDeleteSo long as you touch-type, you shouldn't have problems in French internet cafes especially. Just explain you'd like your keyboard set to QWERTY and they'll perform the appropriate clicks and voila!
ReplyDeleteI have French, German, American International and standard UK, which came as default. (You need UK for the £ sign.) Unfortunately I set German to default, which is fine for German, and I am getting used to typing words like "zu" as "yu" ~ but I don't think I'll ever get my head round typing English "my" as "mz".
I'm using a laptop too, so it's a case of memorizing these bizarre new layouts...
So it's decision time and I think UK English is returning as default.
American International does special characters from French, German and most other major Euro-langs.
Rather than relabelling keys, you use AltGr then type two keys in sequence, e.g. for dots you press 2 and for ö press P.
Unfortunately Blogger in their wisdom have decided that either Alt or Ctrl + P should mean instant posting. So rather than o-umlaut ö, I get the message saying "your post was published successfully" which makes me want to punch the screen, ie this highly useful international keyboard is rendered useless by Blogger's stupidity.
I've complained already but doubt they even read the replies.
Sorry I'm going on but point being, if I can set my own computer to French, German and International, I'm sure French internet cafes, who are so used to foreign visitors, easily do the same...
Have a great trip. Ayez une bonne voyage!
Salut!
French keyboards are the most frustrating thing. Imagine having to write a paper and you only have an hour, by the end of that you're ready to just slam the keyboard into the head of however invented it. Oh. Those French people... but I do love their language.
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