{"id":485133,"date":"2022-01-31T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/frequently-asked-questions\/how-to-type-french-accents\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:13:00","slug":"how-to-type-french-accents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/learn-at-alliance-francaise-the-hague\/registration\/frequently-asked-questions\/how-to-type-french-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Type French Accents?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-1\">Typing French Accents in Windows<\/h4>\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows: International Keyboard<\/h6>\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0-1\">For U.S. English keyboard users, the international keyboard (which is not a physical keyboard, but rather a simple Control Panel setting) is the easiest and most convenient method for typing French accents because it maintains the QWERTY layout, with just a few changes and additions:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0-2\"><li>To type accent grave (\u00e0, \u00e8, etc), type ` (to the left of 1) then the vowel.<\/li><li>Accent aigu (\u00e9), type &#8216; (single quote) then e.<\/li><li>C\u00e9dille (\u00e7), type &#8216; then c.<\/li><li>Circonflexe (\u00ea), type ^ (shift + 6) then e.<\/li><li>Tr\u00e9ma (\u00f6), type &#8221; (shift + &#8216;) then o.<\/li><li>To type French quotation marks \u00ab \u00bb use ctrl + alt + [ and ], respectively.<\/li><\/ul>\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Use Alt codes to type accented characters (does not work on laptop)<\/h6>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-3\"><li>Turn on the\u00a0<strong>Num Lock<\/strong>\u00a0key on your keyboard<\/li><li>When starting to type, press and hold the\u00a0Alt\u00a0key, then type any combination of numbers from your number pad (located on the right side of your keyboard)<\/li><li>Follow the image below to check the\u00a0Windows Alt Codes for Accented Vowels<\/li><li>After you select the accented character that you want to type, release the\u00a0Alt\u00a0key<\/li><li>Repeat the process for any accented character that you want to use<\/li><\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img width=\"678\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6491435_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6491435_orig.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6491435_orig-600x423.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6491435_orig-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-4\">Typing French Accents on an Apple<\/h4>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In an app on your Mac, press and hold a key on the keyboard \u2014 for example,\u00a0<em>a<\/em> \u2014 to display the accent menu. The menu isn\u2019t shown if a key doesn\u2019t have any possible accent marks.<\/li><li>Select a character in the menu \u2014 for example, <b>\u00e0<\/b> .You can also press the number key shown for the character, or use the arrow keys to move to the character, then press the Space bar.<\/li><\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mac-accent-300x111.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mac-accent-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mac-accent.png 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typing French Accents in Windows Windows: International Keyboard For U.S. English keyboard users, the international keyboard (which is not a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46369,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-485133","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485242,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485133\/revisions\/485242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflahaye.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}