Le 5 déc. 06, à 09:40, gabin kattukaran a écrit :
From what I remember, with my iMac G5, the OS installs the first
time you
boot and you should be able to select your language at that time.
It's also very easy to switch languages on the fly:
- one can (as with windows) switch keyboard definitions rapidly via
hotkey*.
- applications normally only check for language once, at startup, so in
order to change menus, help text, etc. one must quit and restart the
app.
- the spell checker can be set to "multilingual" so it only complains
if it can't find a word in any of its dictionaries.
Until I learned that last point, I used to swap languages often; now I
just leave the system preferences set to {Fr,De,It,En}. (the reverse
is common, too: many people, at least those with an engineering bias,
seem content to let their apps run with english menus and dialog boxes)
Two minor points:
- it looks like the spanish keyboard is a regular QWERTY, so after
switching to english the physical keycaps should still mostly match
(modulo ñ and various punctuation, presumably).
- if you don't select your language at first boot, the filesystem might
have spanish names. I picked up my box while I was in the States, and
so while the screen now says "Bureau", the directory itself is
"Desktop".
-Dave
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* a speculation as to why pascal was so verbose: if Wirth's keyboards
were like this one, he had accents and umlauts on the keys that would
normally be brackets and braces and such.
