Comment by lkuty

Yes, the default. That's why, although I am french speaking, I switched a few years ago from azerty to qwerty keyboard just to be using the keyboard used by the people who programmed the default in editors like vim and emacs. Otherwise it is just a PITA. Should have done that from the very beginning I was programming. With Karabiner and Goku I have been able to configure some key combinations to get accented letters like righr alt+e for é, right shift+right alt+e for è, ...