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In French, è is a single character issued by a single keypress on a French keyboard, like e, or +. (Note that A is shift+a). Why should it need two backspaces?
by makapuf 3y ago
In French, è is a single character issued by a single keypress on a French keyboard, like e, or +. (Note that A is shift+a). Why should it need two backspaces? If you press e+` well you have e`, not è.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoI am assuming that means "on French keyboard", not "in French". I have a usa keyboard and live in Canada...Every now and then it thinks I'm typing French and keyboard indeed behaves in a way that some vowel plus some quotation mark indeed gives me some other character (that I don't need :)
- kergonath 3y agoThat would feel very strange to me. The Canadian layout probably behaves differently, but à is a modifier letter, not two letters. I’d expect backspace to remove the whole letter, including the accent.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoOh, it's strange to me too! I curse every time I accidentally hit that setting and my computer seems possessed :) It appears there's a few keyboard layouts and language options: French (Canada) - Canadian French French (Canada) - Canadian Multilingual Standard French (France) etc And then I think it intersects with what keyboard you actually have. Some of these layouts maybe are designed to enable you to type in French characters on a non-French keyboard? Not sure.