Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm curious; won't the majority of people needing this (particularly
> those whose names require it) select French as their installation
> language? I appreciate that you didn't, but it does seem like a good
> heuristic.
It is quite likely that someone who prefers to operate in English
(and for whom English may be a first language) will find themselves
required to write a majority of text/email/documents in French in
francophone Canada (which is not exclusively Quebec, nor even tightly
defined along political boundaries). While this may not directly
influence keyboard selection, I would expect that these people may
find a keyboard layout optimised for entry in French to be preferable
to one not so optimised (I certainly do in a parallel case, although
mine is a less common use case than English speakers in francophone
Canada).
Note that this becomes more interesting as a common default as
many devices with integrated keyboards available in the shop (e.g.
laptops) may have this layout as a default, especially given the legal
requirement that products optimised for French be promoted over
products optimised for English in some provinces (e.g. Quebec (1)).
1: http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/english/infoguides/selling/selling.html
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