BÉPO is based on the Dvorak layout, which was developed in the 1930s as a more ergonomic alternative to QWERTY, and is designed specifically for the French language.

Pascal Lessard concurs: "There is a Canadian French keyboard, and it is Canadian-CSA. For history's sake, Canadian-CSA is the French Canadian keyboard layout Apple has been using for the last 5 years.

With the French unable to cap up accented letters, or write crucial symbols -- or those that are just useful like the euro sign -- the government wants to tweak the keyboard's layout.

When you type a document in a language such as French, ... For example, if you write in English, but you're used to an AZERTY keyboard layout, click the "Options" link next to "English ...

When Peter Keung bought an Acer laptop for his mother a couple of years ago, it came with a surprise. The machine arrived with a multilingual keyboard instead of the familiar U.S. English layout ...

This is the BÉPO layout that was proposed as the successor to AZERTY, the French keyboard layout that baffles the rest of the world but still doesn't actually let you type proper French.

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.