anyone uses a laptop with french canadian keyboard?

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hi so i found a good deal online for this laptop but it's french canadian. i've never seen or used a french keyboard and i don't type in french so just wondering if i will have problems using this keyboard.

thanks :D
 
French Canadian keyboard is ok.
France French keyboards are bad news. They're not your standard qwerty layout. Pain in the *** to type on if you're not used to it.

Canadian French (Quebec)


Canadian French keyboard layout


This keyboard layout is commonly used in Canada by French-speaking Canadians. It is the most common layout for laptops and stand-alone keyboards targeting French speakers. It can be used to type all accented French characters, as well as some from other languages. It also serves all English functions as well. It is popular mainly because of its close similarity to the basic US keyboard commonly used by English-speaking Canadians, and is the standard for keyboards in Quebec.
In some variants of this keyboard “Caps Lock” is “Fix Maj” or “Verr Maj”, “Enter” is “Entrée”,[SUP][9][/SUP] and “Esc” is “Échap”.

edit: my biggest pet peeve with these keyboards (as they are common on HP Laptops built for Canada) is that the left shift and enter keys are weird to hit if you're used to a standard US English QWERTY layout.
 
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yup, wont be a problem, just figure out which key is which....
i switch between both at home all the time cause im bilingual
 
You could always switch the keyboard out with an English version. I swapped my bilingual keyboard on my old MSI Wind netbook for $15.
 
daught said:
Should come up with something that's FRENCH. Loanwords destroy heritage!
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actually those words were taken from french ;)

those English linguist aristocrats back in the hayday thought french was so high class, they put it everywhere in the language
 
LePhillou said:
actually those words were taken from french ;)

those English linguist aristocrats back in the hayday thought french was so high class, they put it everywhere in the language
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Tanks god they didn't take too much of french, my writing french is much worst than my English and I'm french :(

BTW, english or canadian-french, your button are all at the same place, the labels are different that's it. I switch all the time between both language.
 
Where do they put the trees in Quebec?









In between the 2s and the 4s
 
I've used machines that have bilingual keyboards. They drive me nuts. A lot of laptops in the country are being sold with ONLY the bilingual keyboards. Just another reason for me to buy them out of the US. Even my gf, that is trilingual (she writes French fairly often), hates them. Last laptop we bought her we almost bought in Canada even though it was going to cost us about $300 more. But she didn't want the bilingual keyboard and they wouldn't give her that model with a regular one so we bought it online instead.
 
I have a Sony Vaio with a bilingual keyboard and the damn thing keeps switching by itself. One day it will do their "e" instead of a question, then the next day it's fine.
 
imnothng said:
I have a Sony Vaio with a bilingual keyboard and the damn thing keeps switching by itself. One day it will do their "e" instead of a question, then the next day it's fine.
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Gf's laptop with the non-bilingual keyboard does this as well. She kept accidentally hitting the key combo that changes the language. Go into your language settings, disable the hotkey and completely remove French from the list and you should be ok.
 
unL33T said:
Gf's laptop with the non-bilingual keyboard does this as well. She kept accidentally hitting the key combo that changes the language. Go into your language settings, disable the hotkey and completely remove French from the list and you should be ok.
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This
 
If you know your keyboard, you wouldn't have to look at it anyways to type.
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