Dan MorenMar 8
Interesting change between the M4 and M5 generations of MacBook: Apple’s replaced some of the keyboard labels with glyphs alone: tab, caps lock, shift, delete, and return. Fn, Control, Option, Command, and esc all retain their labels.
Show threadNiléaneMar 8
@dmoren it's already like this on my M2 Air fwiw
Show threadYoung Thos
@nileane @dmoren I couldn't resist joining in on the fun: this is a 2012 11" MacBook Air with the hyper-niche French-Canadian QWERTY layout 😎
Mar 8 at 11:26pmIvory for iOS
Show threadDan MorenMar 9
@NeueWelle @nileane Whoa. That is bonkers?! What is happening down there?
Show threadYoung ThosMar 9

@dmoren @nileane The familiar QWERTY layout you know and love, augmented for the typing of the finest French diacriticals. What's not to love? 😅

Even more bonkers, the Windows French-Canadian QWERTY keyboard I have to use for work differs from the Mac one in non-trivial ways lol

But it still beats my childhood learning French in Western Canada, when we had to memorize the four digit Windows ALT codes for all the accented characters because French keyboards weren't available outside Quebec 🫠