So basically there's a specially crafted "French Canadian" keyboard 
layout. One learns new stuff every day. Thanks for the information!

Unfortunately, it appears that none of the FreeDOS keyboard drivers 
(xkeyb, keyb, mkeyb) support the French-Canadian layout out of the box.

regards,
Mateusz




On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:45:40 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> 2016-11-07 4:15 GMT-05:00 Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr>:
>> On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:14:25 -0400, Paul Dufresne wrote:
>>> you might find it strange, but here in Quebec, we are totally lost
>>> with french keyboard. US is much more usable for us.
>>
>> Hi Paul, out of sheer curiosity - may I ask how do you actually write
>> french without an azerty layout? Are people in Quebec dropping all
>> "uncomfortable" accents (é è à ç etc...) in the process, or are you
>> using some other trick?
>>
>> Mateusz
> 
> There is é key on our keyboard.
> For others accents, we type the accents, then the letter.
> You can check:
> http://www3.uakron.edu/modlang/french/keyboard.html You may forget about
> part 1, I was not even aware about the Ctrl key 'trick'.
> 
> Also:
> http://www.ergopedia.ca/ergonomic_concepts/
List_of_Characters_French_Canadian_Keyboard.html
> 
> Also our government have developped a differrent layout with more
> accentuated letters on it, it is called canadian multilingual. But even
> the government seems to drop it for the good old french canadian
> keyboard.
> So just for curiosity you might look at it at:
> http://charsetplus.tripod.com/Keyboard/Latin/ENFR-CAN.htm
> 


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