Fair enough, I had interpreted you post as English / US centric, "why can't they just use our alphabet" but that was my mistake, sorry. FWIW, my wife (French)

Fair enough, I had interpreted you post as English / US centric, "why can't they just use our alphabet" but that was my mistake, sorry. FWIW, my wife (French) is a BÉPO enthusiast - my own french is not good enough to have an opinion but I just asked her (without any context) if she has any trouble with typeing accents, and she said "No, because I use a BÉPO keyboard".