Il y a un an, j'ai commence' a` apprendre franc,ais.

[wandrecanada@mastodon.social]

@tess Bonnes chances! 🙌

[flux@wandering.shop]

@tess Have you tried a CSA key map? A bit of hunting for keys at first, but I've had them work well on both Linux and Mac

[waltertross@mastodon.online]

@tess When I retire I want to make a website where you can pick any Unicode character easily, and define your own collections.
In my terminal I have alias ch='less ~/Dropbox/characters.txt', and the output starts with
U+00B1 ± PLUS-MINUS SIGN
U+00B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO
U+00B3 ³ SUPERSCRIPT THREE
U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN
U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT
etc.
The one I use most is
U+2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW
(because I'm lucky to have a Mac and an Italian keyboard which is also fine for French)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@tess US international layout is the answer. Apostrophes become dead accents

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@tess What OS are you using at work?

[waltertross@mastodon.online]

@tess (BTW, the Dropbox folder is not automatically sync'd with Dropbox any more, since the company doesn't allow it. It's manually synced, and I manage to make it work...)

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@tess Get yourself one of those fucked up French keyboards. You put z where?

[kamihack@mastodon.cr]

@oblomov @tess I support this option, it's how I deal with accents and ñ in Spanish while using US layout keyboards since more than 25 years ago.

[tess@mastodon.social]

@oblomov I hated that keyboard so much I created my own version that doesn't use dead keys

[jill@mastodon.de]

@tess Bonne chance!

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@tess was the issue the dead keys altogether or the fact that the primary function of the apostrophes was dead keys? IIRC there's a variant where '`"~ do their regular stuff but AltGr (right alt) + key does the dead accent.