When software behaves differently to accommodate regional preferences for date, characters, text direction or presents information in multiple languages
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German special characters locked on Keyboard, OS 10.8.3
I'm having a strange problem using the ⌥+U and ⌥+S to type the German umlauts and ß on my keyboard.
The input keyboard I'm using is US Extended. ⌥+U and ⌥+S result in no ...
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Change lockscreen date language iOS 6
When I first configured my new iPod touch 5th gen, I put "English" for iOS language. I then switched iOS to "Français (Canada)" in the General Settings/International. Everything look fine except one ...
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Pandora on my iphone in Germany
I have an Apple IPhone 4 and am living in Germany. I want to get Pandora on my Iphone. I did it last summer while I was in Seattle and it worked here in Germany for three months before Pandora ...
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Does anyone know how to disable unicode text input in text fields?
I absolutely love the Cocoa text engine. A few modifications to a little xml file - ~/Library/DefaultKeyBinding.dict - and you can get just about any key sequence to work in any standard Cocoa text ...
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LANG variable wrong in iTerm2, where's the bug?
Today I noticed that when opening TortoiseHG the app was in Dutch (partially, not fully translated it seems). Looking around in my environment I found out that LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8.
It is indeed true ...
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Order an non-standard keyboard layout on new MacBook
Is it possible to order a new MacBook with a keyboard that's non-standard for a given country? Let's say I want to have a Norwegian keyboard, but I'm living in Australia. Is this possible? And if it ...
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What is the Mac keyboard key with a symbol ⌅ of an up arrow pointing into a horizontal line?
On a Mac, symbols are often used for keys rather than names. In Adobe Indesign for Mac, the keyboard shortcuts for inserting various break characters are described using what looks like an up arrow / ...
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Weird App Store Localisation issues
I'm starting to see some odd behaviour when using the App Store on my iPhone. Certain text is occasionally being shown in the wrong language (usually German), or in a mix of languages, and I also ...
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Can I launch an iPad application in a different locale than what iOS uses?
My iPad 3 is configured in French for the family but I prefer my apps un-translated. Is it possible to force an application to launch in a specific locale? Is it feasible without a third-party tool?
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Can iOS be extended Language and spell correction on iPad 3 [closed]
I would like to know if there is a Bosnian spelling checker for my iPad and iPhone. I'm kind of wondering because there are more Bosnian speakers than there are Slovenian and Montenegrin combined, ...
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Setting preferred language order on iPhone
Q: Is it possible to set a secondary preferred language on the iPhone?
Background:
On the Mac Desktop it is possible to select a "Language Preference" order, so that if your favorite application ...
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Mountain Lion US keyboard layout .. bug? British layout when selected US keyboard
When I change my input source to US Keyboard and I want to press this key: ` I get some British key.
My keyboard is this one:
And it behaves like this one:
I changed my keyboard layout like ...
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216 views
Can I assign a language for each iMessage contact?
I write iMessages in different languages, depending on who the message goes to. Text input is very difficult if auto-completion/correction is using the wrong dictionary. Is there a way to assign a ...
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1answer
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Merge two keyboard layouts into one
I'm a Dvorak user but I also need to use international keyboard too. The problem is - when I use international phonetic keyboard it's based on Qwerty.
When I have hardware support for Dvorak (on ...
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How to insert a dot instead of a comma on a foreign keyboard? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Decimal comma in Spanish keyboard layout
I have a Logitech french keyboard with a numeric keypad.
How can I have the numerical separator on the numpad, between 0 and ...
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222 views
Change date in menu bar from “DAY MONTH” to “MONTH DAY”?
The date in my menu bar is in "DAY MONTH" format (e.g. 23 Oct) but I want it in "MONTH DAY" format (e.g. Oct 23). How can I do this? Also, it shows "Tue" as the week day when I'd prefer seeing it in ...
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How to turn off the spellchecker for a specific document?
I'm in Canada, and I use my mac to write documents in both English and French. Generally, I find that the built-in spellchecker (on 10.7.4) does a great job of automatically detecting which language ...
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Why are emails from Find My iPhone in the wrong locale/language?
I'm a native English speaker and I can only understand English. For some reason, every email notification I get from the Find My iPhone service (such as a "locked" or "alarm" confirmation) is in ...
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Localized app vs many one-languaged apps [closed]
Problem:
I'm making game app for iPhone. I have already this app in App Store (in my language - polish), but I'm working on german and english versions. This app has loads of images/sounds language ...
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What's the difference between the swedish and swedish - pro keyboard layouts?
There seem to be two layouts for Swedish (not counting Sami) and I don't understand the difference.
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1answer
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Is there a way to change the language for Wikipedia searches in iBooks on iOS, without changing the language settings for the device?
I live in Norway so I have my iPad 2 language set to Norwegian.
Most of the books I read in iBooks are english. The dictionary is English which is great, however I often try to look up words that are ...
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Different language for Mac OS and AppStore's softwares
My OS X (Mountain Lion) is in English, and I want to keep it like this.
But, for some softwares in the AppStore (not necessary all), I would like to turn it in French when supported (like OmniFocus) ...
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How to set the language of iCloud calendar reminder emails?
Ever since iCloud Calendar became publicly available I am using it to arrange my schedule. I meet with people from other countries on a regular basis and I'd like the calendar reminder emails I send ...
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How to switch language of OS X dictionary?
In Mountain Lion the OS X internal dictionary that you can fire up by right clicking a word, or by using the dashboard widget, seems to have gained at least one new language: German. Since German is ...
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Switching Keyboard Layout on Macbook on Lion
Is it still possible to switch from the default (Macbook UK) keyboard to the US layout in Lion? Everything I've read says there should be an international option in System Preferences, but there ...
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Disable diacritics in iOS Messages app?
Some people have reported to me that messages that I send them that originally contained diacritics were garbled, or the diacritics are replaced by boxes/stars etc.
Is there a way to make Messages ...
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1answer
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Can I use a foreign power cord to power my MacBook?
I have a MacBook Pro computer and I will be traveling abroad to Hong Kong for studies. The electric sockets and voltage are different than here in the US so I would have to use a converter but it is a ...
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4answers
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Enter “vertical bar” (or “pipe symbol”) in Windows
I have my MacBook late 2008 sometimes running Windows 7 via BootCamp. The keyboard has a German layout. Pretty much like the Wikimedia image below except that the blue symbols in the lowest line are ...
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1answer
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Unable to download an iOS app from iTunes Japan when I am using my Apple account registered in the USA
I'm trying to download the Denwacho Kantan Copy app for iOS so that I can transfer my contacts to my new softbank iPhone. However, I am being told that I can't download this app with my American ...
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Compile VLC on Lion
I am trying to compile VLC on my Mac along with guide on wiki. I am getting the
*** /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk does not exist, please install required SDK, or use export OSX_VERSION=10.6 ***
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Using my iMac in a country with a different power supply standard
We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America.
Is the power supply in my iMac ...
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Why our apps which displaying in iTunes website are always English? [closed]
Our company developed some apps and are live on App Store.
What we developed are Japanese apps and of course expect they should be Japanese UI(metadata such as version, company, category, etc.) in ...
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How to setup Indian rupee format in Numbers?
Indian rupee number format is different from US number format.
e.g. 1,00,00,00,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee
How do I setup a custom number format in Numbers?
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iPad Contacts app incorrectly formats telephone numbers
Some time ago my iPad Contacts app has begun an odd behaviour of incorrectly formatting American telephone numbers. Instead of displaying "(415)-123-1234", for example, it displays "41 5123 1234". ...
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Mac OS X Hebrew UI breaking Safari?
I've changed my MacBook UI to use hebrew in 10.7.3, but since then Safari refuses to upload files. Whenever I have a form with a file upload and I click "submit", the page reloads without submitting.
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Are the downloads for OS X updates different depending on the language?
Are the downloads for OS X updates different depending on the language?
Specifically, I'd like to update two computers to Lion 10.7.3. The problem is that one computer is in English and the other in ...
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Is there a way to type Niqqud on iOS?
On my iPod touch I am able to type basic Hebrew characters by adding a Hebrew international keyboard.
Is there some way for me to type Hebrew vowels (Niqqud) [without using any specialized apps]?
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What are the downsides of getting a foreign keyboard layout on a MacBook Pro?
A 13-inch MacBook Pro costs £999 in the UK, compared to $1,199 (about £760) in the US.
For this reason (I guess), brand new US models cost about £850 on UK eBay. The obvious downside is the keyboard ...
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Is there any way to get a generic (country-unrelated) iTunes link?
When copying links to stuff in iTunes or Mac App Store, I always get a countrycode-specific link. Is there any way to get a generic one?
If not, will those links resolve to national-specific iTunes ...
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Replace dead keys of default US keyboard layout on Lion?
I've been trying to create a new keyboard layout using Ukelele on Lion. I want to replace some dead keys combination like option+e to option+'.
Ukelele seems to be the right tool for it. Problem is, ...
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Is there a timeline for Siri location features to be brought to Canada?
Currently, the location features for Siri don't work in Canada. Is there a timeline for that being rolled out, or is there any way to get around it?
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Manage a multilingual iTunes library?
I just imported a huge music library to iTunes.
This library contains plenty tracks that are already in my library, but the info is in a different language, my question is, is there a way to have the ...
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Plugged in new iPhone - iTunes is now using a foreign language
I just got a new iPhone. I plugged it into my computer (iTunes was already installed). After clicking through the registration windows, iTunes displayed the screen below to me.
Does anyone know how ...
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How can I get Armenian language support in iOS?
I find it strange that while the Armenian language (keyboard layouts and characters) is supported on OS X, on iOS it is not supported at all.
A jailbreak on iOS 3 allowed me to install iKeyEx from ...
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1answer
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A specific problem with altering the Mac command-key layout to behave like Windows
I want to change Command+Space combination to change keyboard layout to a Windows like Alt+Shift but the Lion's keyboard settings does not react when I assign that particular combination. It allows me ...
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How can I do shift + slash on a French AZERTY keyboard?
I have a MacBook with a French AZERTY keyboard.
On this keyboard, the forward slash ('/') is over the ':' character, so I have to do: Shift + : to get the /.
However in Eclipse there is a useful ...
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Ukelele generated custom keyboard layouts not working in Lion?
I created a custom keyboard layout with Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) in Snow Leopard (idea is to generate scandinavian letters with Alt-key, otherwise have a pretty much standard U.S. ...
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What is the difference between the variant language dictionaries in OS X?
How can I see some or all of the individual word differences between the built-in dictionaries. I'm curious and inspired by this question where the UK typically adds the suffix -ise and USA typically ...
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How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?
In OS X Lion, there is a very useful feature for people like me who need to write in multiple languages, which pops up a small menu of additional characters when you hold down a letter.
For instance, ...
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How do I jump to a topic in vim under Terminal for a French Keyboard
I'm on a French keyboard and I'm unable to jump to a topic in vim: If I go ':help' the instructions say:
Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit
CTRL-].
I've ...
