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 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 ...

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 ministry of culture and communication says it's "nearly impossible to correctly write French" on its current keyboards, and so has teamed up with a standardization group -- AFNOR -- to create ...

The people of France really hate their computer's keyboard. So much so that the French Ministry of Culture has teamed up with a standardization group to create a keyboard that makes it easier for the ...

France’s government is putting out a call for a standardized computer keyboard to replace the multitude of AZERTY models now on the market, saying the current options make it “nearly impossible to ...

French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.

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 ...

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 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 ...

File photo: the new keyboard layout should also allow users to operate equally effectively in other regional or foreign languages iStock The French government wants to introduce a new standardised ...