Culture
France's Computer Keyboards Are a Mess
They make it “practically impossible to write correct French,” says a new report.
The French language may still be considered one of the most elegant and prestigious in the world, but the tools the French use to write it down just aren’t up to the job.
That’s the verdict of a report published last Friday, which claims that with current keyboards “it’s practically impossible to write correct French,” and that they need to be replaced with something slicker and better standardized. You might expect this sort of disgruntled commentary to come from some fringe technophile, so the source of the report is surprising. This broadside against the shortcomings of France’s computer hardware comes from the heart of France’s establishment – the country’s own Ministry of Culture and Communications.