It's bloody confusing! I now reguarly use three layouts, and can just about adjust now. I do much prefer the iPhone two-step approach to accentation, though, which (iThink) more closely maps the chinese approach to character input with symbol-modification steps. Using an iPhone in AZERTY is bizarre, though, but otherwise it loses French auto-complete in QWERTY (which I guess makes sense). It's a simple switch, and one I reguarly make mid-input.
you can't expect people to remember how to type éàèçùäâïîëê or even ñ
I know, but rather than having a seperate key for each of them you have a set of modifier keys which you press either before or after the letter to which the accent is to be applied. On the british Mac keyboards these are found under Alt+e, Alt+u, Alt+i (maybe - can't think right now) prior to inputting an accented character. On the iPhone you hold a character's key down to be presented with the various modified versions, and you select from there.
I'll let you know that my keyboard does both. I have ready sets keys for very common accents : éèàç and modifying keys for the less commons ¨^~ which can be added on any vowel (or n).
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