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Having learnt to touch type in English (one month at secretarial school, the most useful training I have ever done) and got used to the Mac’s key combinations for accents (Alt e, e for the acute; Alt i, i for the î Alt`a for the à etc.) I get the little flags to come up on the bar at the top or bottom of the screen by ticking the relevant languages in languages preferences. Then always select the British flag, whichever keyboard I am typing on. I had to show the shop assistants in the Mac store on rue du Renard that you could actually do this. It works for email too. But forced to write in (…)