French accents on english keyboard

[lechinois66]

Can anyone tell me how to get the accents from the english keyboard? It seems really hard to get most of them...

 

[Nermal]

They're typed with the Option key (which I think is called Alt on a British keyboard).

Option-e for acute, followed by the letter, eg. Option-e then a for á.
Option-i for circumflex
Option-` for grave
Option-c for cedilla

Are there any others? I haven't done French since my first year of high school

 

[Rajani Isa]

If you are using a Windows keyboard, I use this site for the alt codes (hold down alt, type the code, release alt.)

 

[jgaudet]

French accents on a bilingual keyboard

This is my first IMac and I ordered a bilingual keyboard so I could have the French accents. Why am I not getting them? Worse, the keys on the keyboard don<t match (as you can see I can<t even find the apostrophe?) HELP, please!

 

[Vihzel]

When I want to type in French (I'm a French speaker), I just use the French AZERTY keyboard and just switch back and forth. It makes it so much easier while typing out a paper. It takes a while to get used to AZERTY but once you get it, it becomes second nature typing in full English and French on it. After a long paper, I always make mistakes writing in English on the English keyboard. hehe