When software behaves differently to accommodate regional preferences for date, characters, text direction or presents information in multiple languages
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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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Is it possible to launch a program in a specific language?
I'm a developer, and my primary language is French, so I use Mac OS X in French. However, I need on a regular basis to open an application in English to do support.
Right now I'm going to the ...
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Decimal comma in Spanish keyboard layout
I have a Spanish layout keyboard (in Snow Leopard). Whenever I use the dot, or comma, in the numeric keyboad (right of the 0) it always shows a comma, but I'd prefer if it entered a dot, just like PCs ...
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How to change the language of iTunes and the App Store?
I live in Italy and have an italian billing address; because of this Apple assumes that I want the app store in italian which is not the case.
The whole UI is in italian, the app descriptions and ...
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Is there a better way to travel internationally with an iPhone (3GS/4 specifically)?
I've travelled to Europe and Asia quite a bit with iPhones with no problems (I live in the US), except for the fact that making calls anywhere outside the US is crazy expensive and of course I ...
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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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Using international phone numbers on iPhone
edit: 1 accepted answer but still no (good) solution! :(
In my previous phone carrier I could just dial +55 11 99883655 and it would just work.
Now I moved to a new carrier and it doesn't work ...
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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 ...
