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created April 9, 2004 · complexity basic · author U.R. Molar · version 6.0
I wanted a scheme which was easy to memorize for French characters.
Take a couple of minutes to study the pattern below, and its "logical" ordering alphabetically. Once understood, I hope it will serve you a lifetime of writing «les belles lettres».
" FRENCH Mapping scheme in alphabetic order " where _ denotes primary letter " " à _â ä " _ç " è _ê ë é " _î ï " _ô ö " ù _û ü " " For capital letters, use the ~ or U operator.
Note: French usage does require putting accent on capital letters. However, when typing machines arrived, due to their technical limitations, we started to see less and less accents on capital letters.
" Note: map! for Insert and Command-line, i.e. imap & cmap " map! ;z à map! ;a â map! ;b ä map! ;c ç map! ;d è map! ;e ê map! ;f ë map! ;g é map! ;i î map! ;j ï map! ;o ô map! ;p ö imap ;q « »<Esc>hi " ^inserts within Quotations map! ;t ù map! ;u û map! ;v ü
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:help digraphs for French characters are really intuitive --Luc Hermitte 01:43, 19 April 2008 (UTC)