9/28/2023 0 Comments Picture of french keyboard layoutI still haven’t made up my mind how to fully deal with it, but I’m making do with knowing the finger dance to switch keyboard layouts quickly. The extra key to the left of Z is where those live on a bilingual/UK keyboard. The only problem I’ve found with switching keyboard layouts on a standard US keyboard is that you lose a couple of characters - I can’t remember which ones off the top of my head (backslash?), but they were deal-breakers for me, as I needed them for programming. Because of this layout, I’ll probably be buying my laptops from the States from now on, or at least going in-store to make sure I’m accustomed to the keyboards. I bought mine online so I didn’t know what the keyboard would be like. The right shift key is half the original size and is shared with another | and \ key. Drives me a little crazy, especially as a couple of mystery characters just don’t seem to exist in some layouts but, still, maybe it’ll help prevent Alzheimer’s one day. When I set to French, a lot of the characters are set to different keys and for some reason the keyboard at work has yet another layout in French. I have a laptop that has a US keyboard and a Canadian multilingual keyboard that I plug in when at my desk. The number of keyboard layouts a bilingual Canadian has to remember in order to type in both languages is nuts. If you don’t touch-type, you can buy little decals and stick them on the keys…. Forget about this changing the physical keyboard thing, just let the software remap a few keys! No numerical codes for accents, no weird enter key, just a few remapped keys on the right hand side. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.ġ28 Responses to “Beware of the bilingual Canadian keyboard layout”Īlso, for people who want a bilingual keyboard the cheap and easy way, just get the usual US keyboard and (in Windows) go to the control panel and set the language to Canadian English and the keyboard to the Canadian Multilingual Standard. This entry is filed under Computer Stuff and written by Peter Keung. Show crop marks when exporting a business card PDF with bleed in InDesign.You’ve got to be careful when replacing laptop keyboards, but it’s certainly a possibility.Ĭheck out this creative solution to the issue, Press Shift, which provides you a customized Shift key and instructions to re-map your keys. If the bilingual keyboard layout (or US layout, to be fair) really bugs you regarding a computer you already own, you can search around for a replacement keyboard with the layout that you want. Narrow bilingual left Shift key and the wider US left Shift key: Tall and narrow bilingual Enter key and the short and fat US Enter key: Here are two of the most obviously differences in those keyboard layouts: If you or the person you’re buying the computer for is used to the US-style keyboard, certain properties might be difficult to adjust to. Many computers in Canada come with a bilingual keyboard layout, which is different than a US-style, “English-only” keyboard. However, don’t forget to look at the keyboard layout. If you’re looking to buy a computer in Canada, or more importantly a laptop, you will probably look at things like brand, screen size, battery life, hard drive space, operating system, CPU speed, RAM, and other even more technical aspects.
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