Similarly, AZERTY keyboards rarely allow easy or obvious access to the symbols that French writing uses for quotation marks (« ») forcing writers to use the English quotations we’re familiar with.

AZERTY is similar to the QWERTY layout, except that Q and A are swapped, Z and W are swapped and M is in the middle row instead of the bottom one.

Changing the Keyboard to Azerty. When you type a document in a language such as French, Belgian or Lithuanian, you may find yourself limited by the standard QWERTY keyboard, ...

Urbain, 48, began using BÉPO about a year ago, and although it’s taken some time to get used to, he says it’s far more intuitive than the AZERTY keyboards he’s forced to use at his finance job.

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 ...

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 ...

France's 100 year-old AZERTY keyboard is to be re-configured after the government ruled that it encouraged bad writing.

The AZERTY keyboard, the French version of the English QWERTY, was first introduced at the end of the 19th century. Other formats have been introduced over the years, ...

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.