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. Hugh Schofield explains. Is this ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...