French keyboards indeed have diacritics available, such as é, è, à, ç, etc. but shift+those keys is another character. On top of that, at least on Windows (I'm

French keyboards indeed have diacritics available, such as é, è, à, ç, etc. but shift+those keys is another character. On top of that, at least on Windows (I'm not sure about Mac), the caps lock key is not a caps lock, but a shift lock. Which means it doesn't capitalize characters, but does the same as pressing shift+key. Funnily enough, in other French locales (IIRC at least Belgium), the caps lock key on Windows is a caps lock key.