French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.

For roughly a century, France has been using the alternative AZERTY keyboard layout on typewriters and computers. But it doesn’t help people type in French easily, and the country has had enough.

The French are known for being sticklers about the correct use of language, but they have discovered something is getting in the way of perfect prose: the AZERTY keyboard. A recent report from the ...

File photo: the new keyboard layout should also allow users to operate equally effectively in other regional or foreign languages iStock The French government wants to introduce a new standardised ...

After years of struggling with a variety of non-standard keyboards, French computer users could soon be typing on a new improved version that guarantees all necessary keys are available and always ...

The French are known for being sticklers about the correct use of language, but they have discovered something is getting in the way of perfect prose: the AZERTY keyboard. A recent report from the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ministry of culture and communication says non-standardized AZERTY keyboards have made it ‘nearly impossible to ...