This web page is intended to serve as a reference for anyone interested in exploring the new AZERTY layout, and to learn more about the methods behind its design.įormal (?) The "Formal" corpus category is made of French texts, either written by professionals or corrected daily by a dedicated community. These are based on the results of the most recent research in the field of text input, on a large amount of French text data (including newspapers, programming code, and Twitter posts), and on large-scale studies of keyboard typing speed. The new AZERTY layout has been developed using computer algorithms. Yet, characters are still easy to locate thanks to intuitive groupings.It includes almost 60 additional characters for foreign languages, technical content, etc.It is designed to be more ergonomic and to allow faster input.It contains the entire set of characters required to type in French (for example É, œ et «).However, it is in many respects superior to the old keyboard : It describes two layouts, one of which closely follows the AZERTY keyboard used by most people who write in French.
The project was launched at the end of 2015 onįrom the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (Ministry of Culture), based on the observation that the current "azerty" keyboards constrain the writing of French, regional languages and European languages with a Latin alphabet.įor the first time, a standard (NF Z71-300) defines the placement of characters on the French keyboard.
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