https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150022
--- Comment #5 from Jukka Siitari <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2) > (In reply to Jukka Siitari from comment #0) > > I am writing all Latin letter based languages with a Nordic (ie. Finland, > > Sweden) keyboard. I am used to it and it works in many cases better than a > > keyboard for a language I am writing in. Note that it is impossible to write > > Nordic (and many other) languages without many extra keystrokes with an > > English keyboard. I am writing a lot of texts in English or Finnish, but > > also in several other languages. > > Note that if you wanted, you could set up your Windows to have several input > languages, *each* having the same keyboard layout; then you could assign > some system keyboard shortcut(s) to either cycling those input languages, or > to each specific input language. All that is available in system "Language > Preferences" applet. This is the intended way of using several languages > with the mentioned Writer feature. That is natural for any user who uses not > only Latin scripts; e.g., for a Cyrillic-language user, it would be natural, > since there's no keyboard layout having both Cyrillic and Latin characters > -> we have at least two keyboard layouts, with respective input languages > assigned; and pressing Ctrl+Alt system shortcut to switch between English > keyboard and a Cyrillic keyboard, we also tell Writer to mark our text with > appropriate language. True, but that means I must also change the physical keyboard and I don't want to do that every time I change the Latin letter languages. I have memorized the keyboard layouts for Cyrillic and Greek, but to do that for English, Swedish, French, German, Portuguese etc. doesn't make sense. All those languages are VERY easy to write with a Finnish keyboard without changing the Windows input language. By the way, almost all Cyrillic and Greek keyboards I have seen have letters in one of those scripts AND Latin ones (usually the English keyboard layout). The point is that I write texts with many tens of pages long in one specific language, mostly English or Finnish, using the Finnish keyboard lay-out, which I have no intention to change. Naturally such long texts ALWAYS require editing, and that's where my problem arises. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
