> writing French from an English keyboard is a PITA.
There's no English keyboard.
Writing French with the US international layout is actually pretty easy.
There's no English keyboard.
Writing French with the US international layout is actually pretty easy.
The umlaut is a dead key so it's very easy. ß is AltGr or Option + S which I admit is a bit more annoying, but your spellchecker should take care of that, no? (I'm Swiss so even when I have to type in broken German, we don't use the ß here).
All layouts are tradeoffs. Not using the US layout makes a lot of things annoying in our field. I write code and use my IDE's keyboard shortcuts more than I need to write long texts in my native language.
I've switched to US intl 15 years ago and I don't type in French any slower than I used to. On the other hand I benefit greatly from using the default layout in our very US-centric field.
So " is Shift+' and @ is shift+2
In UK keyboard layout, @ is shift+', and " is shift+2 (which is what is shown on my keyboard keys).