New French Keyboard Layout

By Xah Lee. Date: 2019-04-03.

2019-04-03 work in progress

French has a new keyboard layout, designed by the gov

The project was began in 2015.

French new layout (standard NF Z71-300), create in 2019.

It offers two layouts, one of which closely follows the QWERTY keyboard used by most people who write in French.

Features:

it contains all the characters required to enter text in French (eg É, œ and ')
it is designed to be more ergonomic and allow faster input
it includes almost 60 additional characters for foreign language input, technical content, etc.
however, the characters remain easy to locate thanks to intuitive groupings
The new AZERTY layout has been developed using computer algorithms. These are based on the results of the most recent research on text input, a large amount of French text data (from newspapers to programming code via Twitter), and large-scale studies. typing speed.

she is the one who created piano keyboard. see Using Piano to Type Text