https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150022
--- Comment #7 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jukka Siitari from comment #5) > (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. Please, re-read what is explained in comment 2, with explicit attention to the part that you can create different input languages, that share the same keyboard. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
