On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Dan Knight wrote: > None. That's all handled by the OS. > > The best bet might be acquiring Spanish language Macs if you're buying > new. They are not easily found here in the States, but they are > available. That will give you a Spanish language OS and keyboard -- > might > be just what you need. Might not. > > Next option would be acquiring Spanish keyboards. > > Worst option is learning how to type special characters -- and this is > supported in the OS, so you can do it in AppleWorks, SimpleText, > Microsoft Office, etc. > > Standard Mac foreign characters > > n with tilde option-n followed by n > vowel with tilde option-n followed by vowel > vowel with umlaut option-u followed by vowel > vowel with acute accent option-e followed by vowel > vowel with grave accent option-` followed by vowel > vowel with ^ over it option-i followed by vowel > cedilla (c with funny thing underneath) option-c > German double-s option-s > > I hope this helps you and others who need to sometimes enter characters > that don't appear on the English keyboard.
OS X is multilingual... just go into International prefpane and set it to whatever language you want the system to be in. I switch back and forth between English, Spanish, and Japanese frequently. The keyboard is more tricky, but not really if you're a touch typist. Just set your Keyboard layout (which is in the International prefpane's "Input Menu" tab) to Spanish, and check out Key Caps to see what it's mapped the keyboard to. Even though the keyboard I'm typing on is QWERTY (ye olde standard US QWERTY), I'm actually a Dvorak typist myself... I just set my layout to Dvorak, and don't bother to look at the keyboard, cuz I know that (physically) it's wrong..... for instance, I may be hitting the key that has 'H' painted on it, but I'm actually typing a 'D'. It works the same way with alternate language layouts. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
