French is hard to encode but easy to decode. ai, aix, é, aient are all (more or less?) the same, so reading is fine, but working out which to write can be tough.
French has bigger problems though. That keyboard for a start.
'ai' in Northern French is pronounced like è (and so tends to be considered the standard pronunciation). Southerners tend to pronounce everything like é.
Aix is also the name of several towns, in which case the 'x' is not silent.
French has bigger problems though. That keyboard for a start.