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Yes, there is a Canadian French keyboard

Yes, there is a Canadian French keyboard

CNET staff
Regarding our previous item suggesting that there is no French Canadian keyboard available for the Mac, a couple of readers disagree:

    A reader writes: "All Macintosh computers sold to French Canadians in the past few years have been shipping with a keyboard that uses the Canadian-CSA keyboard (which includes the accented letters and special characters most commonly used in French, and is actually a better layout than the French 'AZERTY' layout used in France)."

    Pascal Lessard concurs: "There is a Canadian French keyboard, and it is Canadian-CSA. For history's sake, Canadian-CSA is the French Canadian keyboard layout Apple has been using for the last 5 years. Before that, the layout used was Canadian-ISO and even before that, the layout used was Canadian French. Of course, in Mac OS 9, the older keyboard was still there since the old OS could in theory be used on these older machines. But I guess that Apple tossed away the older keyboard layout from the new OS since it was irrelevant: no G3-based computer ever shipped with that older keyboard."