Dear Esther,
Many thanks for such a comprehensive description of the challenges I
may have to reckon with when changing keyboards to accommodate my
language needs. I shall be very cautious.
With my very best wishes
Simon
On 31 Mar 2008, at 14:17, Esther wrote:
Hi Simon,
Be very careful with changing keyboards to non-Latin languages since I
know that you're interested in Greek and Russian. If you manage to
change
your language input preference order -- not just add a foreign
language
keyboard input -- and wind up with a default non-Latin keyboard entry
language you'll have problems with VoiceOver.
You want to make sure that on the Language tab of the International
menu of system preferences that the first language listed in the
table is your default language -- probably English, for you, but U.S.
English for me -- in any case it should be a language with latin
characters for its keyboard set if you want to use VoiceOver!
You may need to use VoiceOver's drag and drop to ensure language
order. Here's a link to Søren's post on how to do this for the
language
tab:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg27607.html
The language tab is tab 1 of 3 on the International menu. You
shouldn't
have to change it, but it may update when you add input language
keyboards on the input menu (tab 3 of 3).
I have a test user account that I created to troubleshoot problems
that are
user account specific or that are associated with general system
settings.
I can also always have an alternative login account where everything
works.
In this case, the preference list file for the default language
options turns
out to be a "hidden" file, so the normal recommendation of trashing
the
file plist file won't work -- because it isn't displayable in
Finder. I can get
to it from Spotlight, but if you can't type Latin characters to
match the file
name, you can't use Spotlight to find this:
Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
in your account. (The period before the file name means that it is a
"hidden" file that isn't set to show up unless you use a software tool
like the freeware OnyX to let these be shown, or unless you work in
terminal.)
Jacob, what status menu do you mean and where does one find it?
Probably a daft question but help would be appreciated.
With best wishes
Simon
As you've probably read, the status menu is the portion of the menu
bar for the clock, battery, volume and Airport Connection. It's
reached
with VO-keys+m issued twice or with control-F8 (or on laptops this
might be control-FN-F8 depending on your keyboard setting).
Cheers,
Esther
On 30 Mar 2008, at 18:42, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
To add any keyboard, go to system preferences, then international.
Select the input menu tab, and check the keyboards you want (there's
a lot of them). Note that I had to route the mouse to the "on"
checkbox immediately to the left of each keyboard name and do vo
+shift+space to actually click on the checkbox.
Once you've got more than one keyboard enabled, an icon will appear
on your status menu called "text input." This is a pulldown menu
from which you can select any of the keyboards you have enabled.
hth
On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Tiffany D wrote:
Geia sas,
Can anyone please tell me how to add the Greek keyboard to the
Macbook? I know how to do this in Windows, but have never
attempted
it in Leopard and don't want to wind up changing the whole system
to
Greek. *smile* Also, how to I switch between keyboard languages?
thanks,
Tiffanitsa
On 30 Mar 2008, at 18:42, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
To add any keyboard, go to system preferences, then international.
Select the input menu tab, and check the keyboards you want (there's
a lot of them). Note that I had to route the mouse to the "on"
checkbox immediately to the left of each keyboard name and do vo
+shift+space to actually click on the checkbox.
Once you've got more than one keyboard enabled, an icon will appear
on your status menu called "text input." This is a pulldown menu
from which you can select any of the keyboards you have enabled.
hth
On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Tiffany D wrote:
Geia sas,
Can anyone please tell me how to add the Greek keyboard to the
Macbook? I know how to do this in Windows, but have never
attempted
it in Leopard and don't want to wind up changing the whole system
to
Greek. *smile* Also, how to I switch between keyboard languages?
thanks,
Tiffanitsa
