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.

The French government is launching a new standard for keyboard layouts in France. The position of the letters (A-Z) will remain the same, but special characters like accents and punctuation marks ...

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.

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 ...