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 ...

As a result, what should be simple, nearly effortless actions like typing accented capital letters ... errors among French students, which some blame at least partly on this keyboard issue.

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.

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.

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 ...