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The Azerty keyboard layout on a laptop sold in Belgium.
The Azerty keyboard layout on a laptop sold in Belgium.
The AZERTY Layout
The AZERTY Layout

The AZERTY layout is a keyboard layout used in France, Belgium and some other countries. It differs from the QWERTY layout as follows: Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 870 KB) AZERTY keyboard layout File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): AZERTY Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 870 KB) AZERTY keyboard layout File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): AZERTY Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the... Image File history File links Azerty_fr. ... Image File history File links Azerty_fr. ... A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and English (QWERTY) letters. ... For the song by Linkin Park, see QWERTY (song). ...

  • A and Q are swapped.
  • Z and W are swapped.
  • M is moved from the right of N to the right of L (where colon/semicolon is on a QWERTY keyboard).
  • The digits 0 to 9 are on the same keys, but the shift key must be pressed to type them. The non-shifted keys are used for accented lowercase characters.
  • Many symbols are in different locations.

The French Windows AZERTY keyboard does not meet standards for the French language. The Imprimerie Nationale recommends the use of accented capitals, but there are no dedicated keys to produce À Ç É È, or French quotation marks «» and ‹› (this gap is filled by text editors that automatically transform "). Also, it has many symbols on the normal and shifted state that are rarely used (e.g. § µ ²), which could be transferred to the AltGr state. On a US keyboard, the key to the left of 1, a ` (grave accent), produces a ~ (tilde) when shifted, (a ¬ on UK keyboards), but on a Belgian AZERTY keyboard, this key produces superscripts ² and ³. This article is about the term superscript as used in typography. ...


In Quebec, where the practice of initial capital accents is generally followed, more adequate, albeit QWERTY, keyboard layouts are normally used. See Keyboard layouts for details. The Office de la langue française and the Canadian Standards Agency have agreed on a mutual standard for the QWERTY keyboard set up as "Canadian Multilingual" for public use. (See http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/RESSOURCES/ti/clavier.html) Computers and other typing devices offer many different keyboard layouts, for people to be able to input data in different languages. ...


The Belgian AZERTY was developed from the French AZERTY and some adaptations were made in the 1980s. All letters are the same as on the French keyboard, but some signs (? ! @ - _ + = §) are in different positions.

Belgian keyboard layout
Belgian keyboard layout

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See also

For the song by Linkin Park, see QWERTY (song). ... A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and English (QWERTY) letters. ...

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