Pro tip | Key shortcuts to create accented letters for your French donors (Part 3)

publication date: Mar 21, 2019
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author/source: Khalil Guliwala and Lea Hardcastle

Key shortcuts to create accented letters

One of the first rules in politics is always spell people's names right. In the two previous articles in the series, "Centrée sur le donateur - are you truly donorcentric if your French-speaking donors are an afterthought?" and "Making the francophone donor journey a bit easier," authors Khalil Guliwala and Lea Hardcastle offer practical advice for Anglophone and Allophone speakers to be respectful of French supporters. In this final part of the series, they provide great, practical how-to advice that makes sure you spell your donor names correctly..

ALT + 133 à (0224)

ALT + 137 ë (0235)

ALT + 151 ù (0249)

ALT + 144 É (0201)

ALT + 235 Ù (0217)

ALT + 131 â (0226)

ALT + 216 Ï (0207)

ALT + 150 û (0251)

ALT + 210 Ê (0202)

ALT + 234 Û (0219)

ALT + 135 ç (0231)

ALT + 140 î (0238)

ALT + 183 À (0192)

ALT + 211 Ë (0203)

ALT + 174 « (0171)

ALT + 130 é (0233)

ALT + 139 ï (0239)

ALT + 182 Â (0194)

ALT + 215 Î (0206)

ALT + 175 » (0187)

ALT + 138 è (0232)

œ (0156)

Œ (0140)

ALT + 128 Ç (0199)

ALT + 226 Ô (0212)

ALT + 136 ê (0234)

ALT + 147 ô (0244)

ALT + 212 È (0200)

Popular Accented Names

Adèle        Gaétan

Agnès       Gaëtan

Aimé         Gastón

Aimée       Geneviève

Amélia      Grégoire

Amélie      Hélène

Anaïs        Honoré

André        Irène

Aurélien    Jérôme

Benoît       Joël

Cécile       Joëlle

Céleste     José

Céline       Mélissa

Clémence  Noël

Édouard    Noëlle

Élisabeth   Pénélope

Élise         Raphaël

Élodie       Régis

Émélie      René

Émile        Renée

Émilienne  Sébastien

Étienne     Séverine

Félix         Thérèse

François    Valérie

Françoise   Zoé

For more on this topic, check out the two companion articles to this piece "Centrée sur le donateur - are you truly donorcentric if your French-speaking donors are an afterthought? and Making the francophone donor journey a bit easier


Lea Hardcastle is the leading digital technologist at the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) and one of the frontrunners in this country when it comes to the early adoption of technology for charitable purposes.

 

 

 
Khalil Guliwala is a bilingual data analyst/ fundraiser/ AFP Canada Fellow in Diversity and Inclusion (2018-2019) from Montréal, Québec.



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