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 ...

video: 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 ...

Regarding our previous item suggesting that there is no French Canadian keyboard available for the Mac, a couple of readers disagree: A reader writes: "All Macintosh computers sold to French Canadians ...

The government of France has revealed plans for a new type of computer keyboard that, it hopes, will protect the correct use of the French language. Unlike English-speaking countries, France does not ...

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 ...

The French Ministry of Culture has said it's time to make a normalized French AZERTY keyboard, after concerns that it has become "impossible to write proper French" on many keyboards. If you've ever ...

An AZERTY keyboard in France. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) From illogical use of the shift key to an impossible-to-find the @ sign, here are some of the biggest complaints that foreigners have with ...

Keyboards touch our everyday lives yet, despite the well-known drawbacks of current layouts used across the globe, the position of characters has largely remained the same. Researchers at Aalto ...

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 are ...