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Canadian French keyboard

Every key and its layers. Pick a layer, or hold a modifier key on your keyboard.

Tip: hold Shift or Option on your keyboard to see that layer.

Special characters

Character	Name	Key combination
#	Hash sign	`⇧ Shift`+`3`
@	At sign	`⇧ Shift`+`2`
[	Left square bracket	`[`
\	Backslash	`\`
]	Right square bracket	`]`
`	Backtick (grave accent)	`
{	Left curly brace	`⇧ Shift`+`[`
\|	Vertical bar	`⇧ Shift`+`\`
}	Right curly brace	`⇧ Shift`+`]`
~	Tilde	`⇧ Shift`+`
©	Copyright sign	`⌥ Option`+`G`
«	Left guillemet	`⌥ Option`+`\`
¬	Not sign	`⌥ Option`+`L`
®	Registered sign	`⌥ Option`+`R`
°	Degree sign	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`8`
±	Plus-minus sign	`⇧ Shift`+`§`
»	Right guillemet	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`\`
À	Capital A with grave	`⌥ Option`+`then`⇧ Shift`+`A`
Æ	Capital AE ligature	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`'`
Ç	Capital C with cedilla	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`C`
È	Capital E with grave	`⌥ Option`+`then`⇧ Shift`+`E`
É	Capital E with acute	`⌥ Option`+`E`then`⇧ Shift`+`E`
æ	AE ligature	`⌥ Option`+`'`
÷	Division sign	`⌥ Option`+`/`
Œ	Capital OE ligature	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`Q`
œ	OE ligature	`⌥ Option`+`Q`
π	Pi	`⌥ Option`+`P`
–	En dash	`⌥ Option`+`-`
—	Em dash	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`-`
’	Curly apostrophe	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`]`
•	Bullet	`⌥ Option`+`8`
…	Ellipsis	`⌥ Option`+`;`
‰	Per mille sign	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`R`
€	Euro sign	`⌥ Option`+`⇧ Shift`+`2`
™	Trademark sign	`⌥ Option`+`2`
≠	Not equal sign	`⌥ Option`+`=`
≤	Less-than or equal	`⌥ Option`+`,`
≥	Greater-than or equal	`⌥ Option`+`.`

Dead keys

A dead key types nothing right away: it changes the next letter. Press it, then Space, to get the mark on its own.

Dead key	Key combination	Resulting characters
´	`⌥ Option`+`E`	á Á é É í Í ó Ó ú Ú
¨	`⌥ Option`+`U`	ä Ä ë Ë ï Ï ö Ö ü Ü ÿ Ÿ
`	`⌥ Option`+`	à À è È ì Ì ò Ò ù Ù
ˆ	`⌥ Option`+`I`	â Â ê Ê î Î ô Ô û Û
˜	`⌥ Option`+`N`	ã Ã ñ Ñ õ Õ

Practice