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 ...

This tutorial will introduce you to the two most widely used types of keyboards: the QWERTY and the AZERTY keyboards. You will also find out how to easily change from one to another, and which ...

After years of struggling with a variety of non-standard keyboards, French computer users could soon be typing on a new improved version that guarantees all necessary keys are available and always ...

Some keyboards lack a dedicated key for the backslash, also known as reverse solidus [\] on a Mac keyboard. In this article, we will show you how to enter the backslash on your Mac keyboard, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest upon, they’re our friends. Fine, that may be a bit much, but we have all undoubtedly come a long way ...

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 ...

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 ...