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.

Enfin! France’s most popular keyboard layout is getting an algorithmically designed and long-awaited facelift. The new layout fills in gaps left by AZERTY, the country’s most widely used typing layout ...

video: The French government is launching a new standard for keyboard layouts in France. The position of the letters (A-Z) will remain the same, but special characters like accents and punctuation ...

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.