In 2015, the French government officially raised these concerns and put a call out for a solution. But re-positioning even a few characters on a keyboard can be challenging.

Pascal Lessard concurs: "There is a Canadian French keyboard, and it is Canadian-CSA. For history's sake, Canadian-CSA is the French Canadian keyboard layout Apple has been using for the last 5 years.

With the French unable to cap up accented letters, or write crucial symbols – or those that are just useful like the euro sign – the government wants to tweak the keyboard’s layout.

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 ...

The French government is launching a new standard for keyboard layouts in France. The position of the letters (A-Z) will remain the same, but special characters like accents and punctuation marks ...

For a century, France has been using the alternative AZERTY keyboard layout. But it doesn't help people type in French, and the country has had enough.

When Peter Keung bought an Acer laptop for his mother a couple of years ago, it came with a surprise. The machine arrived with a multilingual keyboard instead of the familiar U.S. English layout ...

With the French unable to cap up accented letters, or write crucial symbols -- or those that are just useful like the euro sign -- the government wants to tweak the keyboard's layout.