Whether you’re doing some Spanish homework or exchanging jokes with your French-speaking amoureux ... Using the on-screen keyboard to input accented letters is one easy way to nail your spelling.

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.

The French-speaking keyboard, known as Azerty, is a variant of the English-speaking keyboard called Qwerty, which wasn't designed for ergonomic advantages. This specific arrangement of letters ...

there were calls for a ZHJAY keyboard to be introduced Over the years different analysts have pointed out that the lay-out makes little sense for French. The home-row (or middle letter-bar - the ...