# WTF is the deal with French keyboqrds **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-french-keyboqrds/689248 "2014-05-25T23:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-french-keyboqrds/689248/21 "2014-05-26T14:12:06Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Use Dvorak. In what possible way is that a solution to anything the OP has brought up? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-french-keyboqrds/689248/22 "2014-05-26T18:35:49Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > The AZERTY keyboard is standard in France and has been for at least a century. Keyboard standards vary from language to language as far as I can tell,… Some are more separate than that; for example, the British and American keyboards are quite different, and as has been mentioned so are the French and Quebecois. Spanish actually has a lot less versions than one would guess from the list you can see in Windows, which makes it look as if we have a different version per country plus the international one (the difference between the international and reduced keyboards is one key). Still: I was in a project in which neither we nor IT could change the keyboard layout on the desktops we’d been assigned for the English-speaking location. Since we needed to write documents in both English and Spanish (the mother ship was a Spanish company), we were able to use the lack of an ñ key as an excuse to use our much-faster laptops… but seriously, WTF with not letting people change keyboard layout, in a company with employees from two dozen countries? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-deal-with-french-keyboqrds/689248.md?page=1)