 'ç' is, however, a separate key (but only as a lowercase letter in the basic French standard layout).The US-International keyboard may also used for the same reason (notably by programmers as it allows easier input of ASCII characters, provided that they are trained to a QWERTY layout rather than the most common AZERTY layouts available in most computer shops, including online).An alternative (extremely rarely found) to AZERTY is the Bépo layout