Apple - How does one type an "É" (capital e acute) in the French keyboard layout in Mac OS X?
French layout?
- Press caps lock ⇪.
- Press the é key (that's the 2 on a QWERTY).
- Press caps lock ⇪ again.
But you need to make sure you're using the French layout, and not French - numeric (“Français - numérique”, French flag with “123” beneath it).
Otherwise, you're explicitly asking the system to use the caps lock key as a shift lock for the numbers bar on the top of the keyboard!
To type this character, type ⌥+E, then ⇧+E. "É" is the character I get.
In Lion, I understand one can hold down the key, a la iOS, and get a list of possible characters with accents for many of the keys:
The standard dead-key combo for a French layout is ⌥ + Shift + &, then Shift + E.