![]() ![]() Fusion is a Mac product, it should respect Mac standards. I do not intend to bought a Windows USB keyboard to have Fusion functionning well. We bought a Mac, we aren't responsible of the fact that Apple has its own keyboard mapping. (Hello from Canada) It's a no sense the AZERTY keyboard it's the regular French from France setup up, the French Canadian is QWERTY with special characters like. See Smitt圜hat's French link for a picture of these and other differences. Latin keyboards in general, especially with accented characters, do not have braces and brakets directly available without a special key. Confirmed: the French Canadian Surface keyboard layout is different: it is AZERTY instead of QWERTY. I'm pretty sure that the french keyboard is not the only international keyboard with this character filtering in Fusion. If you are just a Windows user, how do you expect to type folder paths or network paths without backslash? If you are a developper or a Linux command line user, braces, brackets, backslash and pipe are essentials. If the Mac system give the same ASCII code through another special key combination, just use it! But, hey: Alt+Gr is a Windows special key to get an ASCII code. Or, better said: why should Mac users have in mind a picture of a Windows french keyboard to type these characters? I've noticed that the right Alt key is equivalent to the Alt-Gr key. ![]() Why those (not so) special characters are trapped by Fusion in a way or another? As I were more confident and more used with free VMware products under Windows, I jumped and bought Fusion 2.2, running on a MacBook OSX 10.5.6 with french keyboard. Parallels and VMware have done their marketing job. (I'm running the latest VMWare Fusion under French MacOS X 10.5.5, on a MacBook Pro with French keyboard) I would really appreciate, and I will immediately buy VMWare Fusion, if they provide me with that product in which I can type any ASCII character, am I asking a lot? I cannot write a simple computer program. It puzzles me that VMWare people claim to have localized their program into French, while more than a dozen ASCII characters can not be obtained from the keyboard!! that's pure ASCII, and I cannot get it. Well the problem is exactly the same with VMWare Fusion. None of those works with Parallels, and neither do | (vertical bar), \ (backslash) and other characters you get using alt- key combinations. AFNOR, the standardization group charged with developing the new keyboard, has said that the process is open to all who want to participate.When I heard about VMWare Fusion being better than Parallels I immediately decided to try it out, because of a major problem I have with Parallels: many characters are impossible to get:įor example, to get a brace on a French keyboard you type alt-( alt-), to get a bracket you type alt-shift-( alt-shift-), the at sign is on the upper utmost left of thekeyboard, and the shift of it is a #. Once adopted, the new keyboard standard would be voluntary for keyboard manufacturers, though in a report outlining its position, the culture and communication ministry said that it could be required for public administration computers, which would incentivize companies to follow suit. Recent surveys have shown an increase in spelling errors among French students, and there has been some debate over whether text messages and other forms of online communication bear some of the blame. The Académie Française has spent the better part of 300 years protecting the integrity of the French language - more recently, by defending it from anglicisms like "cloud computing" and "le cheeseburger." (The notoriously stodgy institution calls its 40 panel members "Immortals," and set an upper age limit of 75 in 2010.) And although the number of French speakers is rising across the globe, there are concerns over the future of the language within France.
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