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 ...

Keyboards touch our everyday lives yet, despite the well-known drawbacks of current layouts used across the globe, the position of characters has largely remained the same. Researchers at Aalto ...

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 ...

For roughly a century, France has been using the alternative AZERTY keyboard layout on typewriters and computers. But it doesn’t help people type in French easily, and the country has had enough.

A year ago or so I was bitten by the keyboarding bug. In addition to spending a bit too much money on a mechanical keyboard and writing a few too many words about the process, I also started paying ...

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 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 ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

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 ...