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@Oliver Schick
Cheers, Platini, I was addressing that to basien, who should by rights have a proper French keyboard. Something like this:
The was me going into Platini mode, sorry about any confusion.
When I need to write French (or German) on an English keyboard, e.g. for e-mail or on a forum (text editors in e-mail clients or browsers don't tend to be that great), I compose it in another editor that supports easy shortcuts to unusual characters. It has to be admitted that M!¢£@$*~+ W€®Þ has an excellent system of shortcuts, which for some reason (perhaps it is patented?) still hasn't found its way into OOo 3.0.
The M!¢£@$*~+ system is dead easy--you press Ctrl plus a character that looks a lot like the diacritic symbol that you want (e.g. a colon for double dots as in ä or a forward apostrophe for an accent aigu as in é) and then press the letter you want, e.g. Ctrl+comma and then 'c' for a c cédille = ç or Ç. Really clever.
We expect high standards of orthography of our French correspondents. Natch.