French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.

Although QWERTY is the most popular keyboard design, it was not the only option. The Dvorak keyboard is another design, developed by Dr. August Dvorak in the 1930s.

One company is trying to bring that same ease of expression to desktop computers, by way of a full QWERTY keyboard that doubles as an emoji keyboard. The Emoji Keyboard, from Austin, Texas-based ...