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 ...

A keyboard layout used in France and neighboring countries. A, Z, E, R, T and Y are the letters on the top left, alphabetic row. AZERTY is similar to the QWERTY layout, except that Q and A are swapped ...

While computer users have long been used to the constant evolution of processors, displays, hard drives and graphics cards, there is one component that has remained pretty much unchanged since 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 ...

Having baffled typists for decades, the flawed AZERTY keyboard layout is facing a revamp after the French government finally steps in. After years of struggling with a variety of non-standard ...

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 physical keyboard of the BlackBerry KEYone is its defining feature and one of its biggest selling points. But, if you live in a part of the world that doesn’t use the QWERTY keyboard layout, ...

Switching to the Azerty keyboard can be slightly mind-blowing for new arrivals in France. Photo by Ralf Hirschberger / AFP Add The Local as a preferred source Few can forget their first encounter with ...

The latest campaign to protect the French language isn’t being waged over anglicisms like “hashtag” or “selfie,” but the design of a keyboard. This week, the French government announced a plan to ...

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 ...