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Apple Keyboard - British

Planning to buy a Macbook pro. I do translations into French. What about the accents? which keyboard do I need for this?

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  • My wife is from Italy and I have been trying to get her to do what I am going to suggest to you. This has nothing to do with the keyboard and everything to do with support of your language input preference -- in this case French -- by the Mac operating system. So, if you are already a Mac user, I suggest you go ahead and set up this software part of your solution first, before you even go out to get your MacBook Pro or the external keyboard. If you are a "switcher" from Windows, just go ahead and buy on faith that this will work for you. You could even go to the Apple Store, pre-sale, and ask one of the sales geeks to help show you how you can customize your input devices.

    Anyway, what you will do is Go to  > System Preferences > International and skip over the Language option and click on the Input Menu portion of the choice bar. Set up French as your 2nd choice language, and you will be given a keyboard character map "friendly" to French!

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  • If you're native language is English then I recommend a standard English layout (QWERTY).

    Apple's approach to accents is quite intuitive. For instance, to create the letter â all I did was hit alt-i then a. Likewise for ö I hit alt-u then o. é is alt-e then e, and so on.

    Hope that helps. :)

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  • Macs include the keyboard and Character viewer which lets you insert many different letters. :)

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