Search for French Characters in your key board ends here!!
Fortunately or Unfortunately I came across a requirement to type in French characters in my system. I started searching for those odd characters in my key board and the end result was failure. I couldn't find it at all..
Before explaining how to type in French Characters let us have a basic understanding about French alphabets.
French alphabet consist of 26 letters, lowercase and uppercase, with five diacritics and two orthographic ligatures. The latter part, diacritics and ligatures, is what we are inerested about and need to know how we type it in.
Below listed down are the Diacritics and Ligatures:
| Àà, Ââ, Ææ |
| Çç |
| Éé, Èè, Êê, Ëë |
| Îî, Ïï |
| Ôô, Œœ |
| Ùù, Ûû, Üü |
| Ÿÿ |
Getting confused with the special characteres?
Lets us make it much more simple. For this let us look into Diacritics and Ligatures seperately.
Diacritics:
All the special characters that you have seen in the above table on top of each characters is called Diacritic Marks. The possible diacritic marks are the acute(´), grave(`), and cicumflex (^) accents, the diaresis (¨) and the cedilla ( ¸ ).
Let us not go much deep into how these are combined with our alphabets and how it is pronounced.
Ligatures:
There are two ligatures œ and æ which are treated like the sequences oe and ae.
Now, I hope you got a basic idea about the French characters and so moving to check on how to type in those characters from our keyboard.
The idea of typing in French characters works out with alt key and some 3 or 4 digit numbers. What you have to do is to press down the alt key and enter the 3 or 4 digit number and on releasing the alt key, your required French character will appear.
Below are the list of combinations and now its time for you to test it.
| Grave Accent | Accute Accent | Circumflex | Tréma | Ligature | Cedilla | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | ALT + 133 (à) | NA | ALT + 131 (â) | ALT + 132 (ä) | ALT + 145 (æ) | NA |
| A | ALT + 0192 (À) | NA | ALT + 0194 (Â) | ALT + 142 (Ä) | ALT + 146 (Æ) | NA |
| e | ALT + 138 (è) | ALT + 130 (é) | ALT + 136 (ê) | ALT + 137 (ë) | NA | NA |
| E | ALT + 0200 (È) | ALT + 144 (É) | ALT + 0202 (Ê) | ALT + 0203 (Ë) | NA | NA |
| i | NA | NA | ALT + 140 (î) | ALT + 139 (ï) | NA | NA |
| I | NA | NA | ALT + 0206 (Î) | ALT + 0207 (Ï) | NA | NA |
| o | NA | NA | ALT + 147 (ô) | NA | ALT + 0156 (œ) | NA |
| O | NA | NA | ALT + 0212 (Ô) | NA | ALT + 0140 (Œ) | NA |
| u | ALT + 151 (ù) | NA | ALT + 150 (û) | ALT + 129 (ü) | NA | NA |
| U | ALT + 0217 (Ù) | NA | ALT + 0219 (Û) | ALT + 154 (Ü) | NA | NA |
| C | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ALT + 135 (ç) |
| C | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ALT + 128 (Ç) |
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