Thursday, October 27, 2016

French Keyboard on US Macbook Keyboard

I have a US-like keyboard with this key disposition


However, it happens to me to write in French changing keyboard preferences to French. The keys are mapped to a French keyboard.  I use a rubber cover from kbcovers.com, which is excellent and looks like this:


However, the physical layout of a true French macbok keyboard is slightly different. Also, and more impostant, some important characters such as | ~ # [ ] { } are not present, or difficult to see, in the cover.

So, I prepared my own cheatsheet:


Yes, it does look horrible and yes, it does work :-)