The ministry has partnered with a standardization group to develop a new keyboard norm ... is inconsistent across French keyboards, and accenting capitalized letters can be particularly difficult ...

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 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.