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By Matthieu, December 16, 2010 11:17 pm

After nearly a year of being slightly annoyed at my Nexus One’s stock keyboard having only an AZERTY French keyboard as opposed to a  QWERTY one we use in Canada, I finally took matters into my own hands and modded the recently “leaked” Gingerbread keyboard to make the French keyboard QWERTY. Download below.

Après près d’un an avec mon Nexus One et son clavier soit anglais, soit AZERTY, j’en ai eu assez et ai décidé de modifier le clavier Android pour permettre l’entrée du texte français via un clavier QWERTY. Téléchargement disponible ci-dessous.

gingerbreadkb-multilang-update-signed-fr_CA-qwerty.zip-signed.zip

References/This would not have been possible without:

• Original idea: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8494#c18
• How to create a signed apk: http://www.androiddevelopment.org/tag/jarsigner/
• How to create a signed update.zip: http://www.robmcghee.com/android/creating-an-android-update-zip-package/
• Original Gingerbread keyboard with French dictionary: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9794752&postcount=109

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By Matthieu, September 9, 2009 8:06 pm

This used to be on my googlepages page, but apparently that’s going to be shut down, so here it is now.
clavier-cf.zip

Download, unzip and stick the two files (cf.icns and cf.keylayout) in /Library/Keyboard Layouts. Then go to System Prefs, International (Language and Text for Snow users), Input Menu and check off “Canadien Francais 0.9″. (You may need to log out and back in before the new layout appears in System Preferences).

OR use the easy-peasy version that I made. Just unzip and double-click:

Canadian French keyboard layout.mpkg

I did NOT make this keyboard layout, I found it somewhere on the web but the original site is now gone.

Voici le clavier Canadien francais pour Mac OS X. C’est l’equivalent du clavier “Canadian French” ou Francais (Canada) sous Windows. Lien de telechargement ci-dessus.

You may also want to try Microsoft’s keyboard layouts bundle: Microsoft Keyboards.bundle

Here is the actual keyboard layout screenshot: