Left: France’s current AZERTY layout. ... In recent years, a community of advocates for open-source software developed BÉPO, a keyboard layout that was cited as an example in the ministry report.

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.

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 ...

When I first encountered a French AZERTY keyboard as an ex-pat, I thought "this isn't so bad." The letter layout is similar to QWERTY, so I reckoned that typing in français would be a snap. I ...

France to 'modify' AZERTY keyboard to improve French writing. Paris (AFP) – Issued on: 21/01/2016 - 17:06. Advertising. Read more ... the government wants to tweak the keyboard's layout.

Add or remove a language . You can use pretty much any keyboard layout with any language, but using different languages can change the built-in spellchecking and autocorrect tool in Windows 11, so ...

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 ...

When I first encountered a French AZERTY keyboard as an ex-pat, I thought "this isn't so bad." The letter layout is similar to QWERTY, so I reckoned that typing in français would be a snap. I ...

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. While English ...