azerty keyboard

Version with AZERTY keyboard exists also.

The numero symbol is not in common use in France and does not appear on a standard AZERTY keyboard.

In Belgium, a specific Belgian variant of AZERTY keyboard layout (KBD120) is widely used.

The Belgian AZERTY keyboard allows for the placing of accents on vowels without recourse to encoding via the Alt key + code.

Most Belgian keyboards have the AZERTY keyboard layout, which is based on QWERTY.

Minitel terminals use the AZERTY keyboard, not the QWERTY keyboard.

On a Macintosh AZERTY keyboard, the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt + Maj + &, keys, followed by the vowel.

In practice, the "o" is often replaced by the degree symbol ( ), which is visually similar to the superscript "o" and is easily accessible on an AZERTY keyboard.

Minitel terminals use the AZERTY keyboard most commonly used in French (as opposed to the QWERTY keyboard more common in the English-speaking world).

Moreover, these keys are compatible with both QWERTY and AZERTY keyboard layouts, which is a major plus if the game is also released in France or Belgium.

The Belgian AZERTY keyboard was developed from the French AZERTY keyboard, but some adaptations were made in the 1980s.

Switch to French and it becomes an AZERTY keyboard, to Italian and it's a QWERTY keyboard again, to one of the Russian keyboards and it is, to this typist at least, inexplicable.

This has led to drives to reform the AZERTY keyboard (chiefly by doing away with the ù, which may be typed using AltGr+è and u anyway, and/or swapping the period and semicolon), although to date this has not been successful.

The straight apostrophe (Unicode U+0027) being the default apostrophe displayed when striking the apostrophe key on a usual French AZERTY keyboard, it has become natural for writers to use the straight apostrophe for glottal stops.

The French and Belgian AZERTY keyboards also have special characters used in the French language, such as ç, à, é and è, and other characters such as &, ", ' and , all located under the numbers.

The keyboards made in Belgium and France switch the letters Q and W with the letters A and Z. They also move the letter M to the right of L. These types of keyboards are called AZERTY keyboards.

The console is normally accessed by pressing the backtick key ' (frequently also called the key; normally located below the ESC key) on QWERTY keyboards or the 2 on AZERTY keyboards, and is usually hidden by default.

Ever since the AZERTY keyboard was devised, a single key has been dedicated to the letter (ù), which only occurs in one word (où [where]), the œ is completely unrepresented, despite the fact that it is an integral part of the French language and occurs in many different words.