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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Where can I find a map of my MBP french keyboard layout?
I just moved to Mac and I need to get used to the keyboard of my Macbook Pro. I've seen images / maps of the QWERTY keyboards but could not find a proper one for French. I want to see what the ...
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Dvorak keyboard layout with international character support?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.3, and find myself switching between the Dvorak and U.S. Extended keyboard layout. Ideally I'd want a Dvorak layout with the international character support of the latter ...
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How do I type š on an international keyboard?
I'm currently writing emails frequently to a Slovenian who has the letter š in his name. I use copy and paste for the letter š, which is quite inconvenient.
I'm using the US keyboard layout.
How can ...
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How do I make the Globe key disappear from the keyboard?
I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a ...
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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 ...
