this is great help! Thank you! Rachel On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
> I use a Greek keyboard and it works fine so does the Welsh keyboard. I'm not > sure about the Chinese. But if you go into the table of available keyboards, > under system preferences and look to the left of the keyboard name column, > some checkboxes report as dimmed. I assume that these keyboards are not > automatically installed with os Lion and maybe you have to install them from > extras. I'm sorry if I can't be of more help. > On 7 Dec 2011, at 15:52, Rachel Magario wrote: > >> 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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