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. I soon ...

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 ...

The French could be about to radically change their much-maligned keyboard. It could soon be time to bid adieu to AZERTY and say bonjour to BÉPO. Foreigners living in France rarely have anything ...

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 ...

France's 100 year-old AZERTY keyboard, the equivalent of the English-language QWERTY, is to be reconfigured after the government ruled that it encourages bad writing. Hugh Schofield explains. Is this ...

Hugh Schofield looks at the quirks of the AZERTY keyboard France's 100 year-old AZERTY keyboard - the equivalent of the English-language QWERTY - is to be reconfigured after the government ruled that ...

When you type a document in a language such as French, Belgian or Lithuanian, you may find yourself limited by the standard QWERTY keyboard, which lacks many of the special characters found in these ...

If you’ve done some world traveling, you may know the frustration of sitting down in an Internet cafe, expecting to type out a message, only to realize that the keys on the computer’s keyboard are ...

France's 100 year-old AZERTY keyboard - the equivalent of the English-language QWERTY - is to be reconfigured after the government ruled that it encourages bad writing. The AZERTY set-up has ...