The whole keyboard thing is just an excuse not to type them correctly. You can have ANY key layout on ANY keyboard. It's just setting in your operating system. In windows it's located in regional settings.
American can switch to French keyboard layout any day. If they wishes to. If they don't then they can blame only themselves.
Beside, it's enought to switch to US international key layout to be able to use most of the accents easily. And switching to Canadian layout is even better. No need to go to French layout since it would be difficult to learn (because couple normal alphabets are "mislocated").
If they keys are physically marked wrong, is pretty much irrelevant since who really looks to keyboard when typing ? No-one, with more than couple months experience of computers.
I'm normally using Finnish layout, but I sometimes need to use US layout (since it's default in many programs and operating systems). Not to mention using Mac's and Sun's keyboards.
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