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.

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ministry of culture and communication says non-standardized AZERTY keyboards have made it ‘nearly impossible to ...

The keyboard is a core part of the computer, but it’s also international. Just like how we speak different languages, the keyboard has different layouts. The most standard is the QWERTY English layout ...

Why was the QWERTY keyboard layout invented and why has it not changed? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.