Thanks! Do you happen to know if Chinese and non-English characters keyboards work well?
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Simon Cavendish <simon.cavend...@googlemail.com> wrote: > You can indeed change your keyboard language on the fly. First, however, you > need to choose the keyboards that you wish to have available via system > preferences/language and text. Once you find language and text button in > system preferences, activate it and you will have four tabs there. Select the > last one. Move to the right and you will encounter a table of all available > language inputs. Interact with the table, and check the checkboxes for the > languages you wish to have. These language keyboards should then appear in > your text input menu in your menu bar, activated with control f8 shortcut key. > > You can change your keyboard layouts via this menu but you could also > activate the shortcut key for this under system preferences. The trouble is > that the shortcut key for changing your text input clashes with the shortcut > keys for activating spotlight search. However, since you can activate > spotlight by pressing vo+m 3 times in succession, I have decided to > deactivate the spotlight search shortcut keys, command+spacebar for previous > input source, and command+shift+spacebar for next input source. > > To do this, return to your language and text options under system > preferences, and there you will find a button 'keyboard shortcuts". Activate > it. There you will find two tables. The first one enables you to choose > shortcut keys for spotlight. Vo+down arrow in the table until you hear > spotlight. Then stop interacting with the table and move to the next table > where, after interacting with it, you can uncheck the boxes for the spotlight > searches. > > Then go back to the previous table of shortcut categories and this time vo > arrow down to keyboard text input or something like that. Stop interacting > and move to the right to interact with the table of available shortcuts. > Check the boxes referring to previous and next input keyboard, and double > check the key sequences by moving to the right hand side column where you > will hear the command+spacebar and command option spacebar for the next input > source. Then you are done. > > Now each time you press these keyboard shortcuts, voiceover will announce > "new keyboard layout so and so". Note that the previous keyboard layout > shortcut command+space, moves you between the two recently used keyboards. So > if you have 3, for instance, British, German and French, but recently, you > used French, it will give you French layout. While in French, if you press > the same command again, it will take you back to your British layout. If you > do it again, it will give you French again. If you want German, you will have > to use the next keyboard shortcut command option spacebar to hear your > keyboard as you file past them. > > Occasionally, Voiceover stopped announcing new keyboard layout for some > unknown reason and I had to restart my computer but that doesn't happen often > and I use these shortcut keys all the time. As for spellchecking in other > languages, I have never tried it. I didn't think it was possible. > > Hope this helps. > > Best wishes > > Simon > On 7 Dec 2011, at 00:50, Rachel Magario wrote: > >> Thanks Anne. Idid that, but it does not seem to work! >> Do you change your keyboard layout when you start writing in a different >> language? Cause I usually just leave it on my us english keyboard. >> I don't know how to change the key board lay out in the fly on the macbook >> only on the iPhone and have not gone explore to investigate how. >> Thanks again! >> Rachel. >> On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello Rachel, >>> >>> For me, the Mac detects the language without me having to do anything. In >>> System Preferences, in the Language&Text pane, under Text, I have it set to >>> Automatic by language. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 6 Dec 2011, at 05:24, Rachel Magario wrote: >>> >>>> This question is for Anne, but anyone who might know the answer, please! >>>> How do I do automatic spell check for a different languages. Sometimes >>>> when I am in mail I need to answer email in different languages, but it >>>> keeps spell checking in english. 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