> Every I know in Montreal uses the CSA/ACNOR layout if they're writing French and nobody uses AZERTY There are two different Canadian QWERTY keyboard layouts

> Every I know in Montreal uses the CSA/ACNOR layout if they're writing French and nobody uses AZERTY There are two different Canadian QWERTY keyboard layouts suited for typing French though: the one called "Canadian French" (or something similar) where most of the accents are on dead keys [0], or the one called "Canadian Multilingual Standard" (or "CSA" or "ACNOR") where most of the accented letters have dedicated keys [1]. I personally use the CSA layout, but my impression was that that's uncommon, since my French teacher thought that I was crazy when I told her I used that layout. And this comment [2] suggests something similar. But I also live in Alberta, so I'm not exactly in the best location to see what most French Canadians use :) > We were all taught to use keyboards printed in the US keyboard, but swapping the virtual layout to Canadian French when writing French Same here, but I had assumed that that was only because I was in Alberta where there aren't many French people/keyboards. [0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Canadian_French.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Canadian_French.s... [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Canadian_Multilingual_Standard.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Canadian_Multilin... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781647