Alt Code Shortcuts for French Letters with Accents

In our earlier article, we have provided the alt code shortcuts for accented letters in German language. Unlike German, French language has many accented letters. Most of these letters are part of the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block with the code point from U+0080 to U+00FF. You can use alt code shortcuts in Windows and option code shortcuts for Mac to insert these accented letters.   

Alt Code Shortcuts for French Letters

Here is complete list of alt code shortcuts for French letters with accents.

How to Use These Shortcuts?

You can use the shortcuts in different ways depending upon the application and operating system.

In Windows Documents

The alt code shortcuts will work on all Windows based documents like Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Press and hold one of the alt keys and type the numbers using number pad on your keyboard. For example, Alt + 0202 will produce capital letter E with circumflex like Ê.  

In Microsoft Word Document

Use the hex code then press alt and x keys to type the accented letters on Word documents. For example, 00FB + Alt + X will produce small letter u with circumflex like û. You can use normal keyboard alphanumeric keys for typing the code; however, it will only work on Microsoft Word in Windows.

In Mac Documents

In order to use the shortcuts in Mac, you should first change the keyboard input to Unicode Hex Input. You can toggle the keyboard input from the Input Menu icon available in the top menu bar. After toggling to U+ input, press option key and type the four digits hexadecimal code. For example, Option + 00CE will produce capital letter I with circumflex like

On Web Documents

All the accented letters in French has an entity name, which you can use in HTML web pages. Alternatively, you can also use decimal or hex escape entity code as given in the below table (use the codes without spaces).

In CSS and JavaScript documents, you can use hex code in \00FF and \u00FF formats respectively.