Questions tagged [internationalization]
When software behaves differently to accommodate regional preferences for date, characters, text direction or presents information in multiple languages
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How can I change the Han character font in the search list of Dictionary.app?
I’ve created a custom dictionary with the Dictionary Development Kit and added it to Dictionary.app on my Mac. It’s working fine but there is one stylistic issue I would like to fix.
The dictionary is ...
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How do I display both Gregorian and Persian dates in the Calendar app?
How do I display both Gregorian and Persian dates in the Calendar app?
It only allows "lunar" alt calendars, not Jalali/Persian calendars.
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How to turn of [Fn] key changing keyboard language in Monterey
I just upgraded to Monterey and am being driven a bit spare by accidental language switching resulting from the side of my hand hitting the fn key on my Magic Keyboard. Is there a way to disable this? ...
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MacOS Ventura Date Format Broken
In System Settings, General, Language & Region, Date format, I choose year/month/day.
But Finder still shows dates in confusing month/day/year.
This was not a problem prior to updating macOS to ...
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Safari translates all languages... except Korean?
Safari on macOS offers page translations for nearly any language I throw at it. Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French.
But not Korean.
This behavior is strange. On iOS 16, Safari will translate Korean ...
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How to prevent Safari from offering translation for the primary language of the device?
As the title is self-descriptive, despite my device's primary language is English, Safari still offers translations for the pages in English. How can I prevent Safari from offering translation for the ...
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Remapping keyboard shortcuts to use with international keyboards?
I have been using the french version of a DVORAK keyboard layout, called BÉPO, for several years. However I’m increasingly facing an annoying problem: with the multiplication of Electron apps among ...
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How do I use shortcuts with the left square bracket [ key when there is none?
I'm using an M1 MacBook Air with a Swedish keyboard and there is no left square bracket [ key though I can do that bracket easily by pressing ⌥ Option + 8 .
Xcode, however, has several shortcuts ...
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Change system-wide default font for a particular language
The default macOS font for Persian/Arabic is quite bad (IMO). Is it possible to change the system-wide default font for particular languages? I guess I'm looking for the equivalent of fontconfig rules ...
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Keep folder names the same on all places
I localized my Mac to Brazilian Portuguese so the folder names appear as "Imagens", "Documentos" in Finder, but on the terminal the English names are kept: "Documents", &...
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MacBook Pro Latin American layout keyboard with USA keyboard configuration compatibility
I decided to buy an Apple MacBook Pro in my country but the layout is a bit different from the English distribution. The only question I have is if I will have any problem with the keys >< and Z....
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Disable diacritics auto insertion like á and é on macOS
I need to work on an old iMac sporting High Sierra for some time.
The problem I have is that pressing the keys ' then e outputs é, when I would like it to simply print 'e. Same for ' then a.
I am ...
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How to change macOS region using the Terminal?
I am using macOS Monterey version 12.4.
I need to change the region using just the Terminal, how can I do it?
I tried to edit ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist and change AppleLocale ...
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How can I edit macOS system localization files?
Recently, Apple has decided to force gendered expressions in the German locale. They say there is no way to undo this, so I've been trying to sniff out a way to change the affected strings on my own.
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Need to buy a MacBook Pro with a French Canadian keyboard but don't live in Canada
I live in Japan and I need to buy a new MacBook Pro with a French Canadian keyboard (physical, not just changing the keyboard layout in the OS).
The option of a French Canadian keyboard is only ...
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Why did my mother's App Store change to Spanish when she changed her phone's language to German?
My mother and I both currently live in Mexico, where Spanish is the official language. We've always had our phones, tablets and computers set to English, and the App Store has always reflected our ...
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How to make ' and < map to the right keys (force change from ANSI to ISO)?
My separate keyboard (a Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate with ISO layout) has, to my chagrin, a different and erroneous keyboard mapping than the MacBook's built-in (also ISO).
The biggest annoyance is the ...
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Select Latin American Spanish voice for translate feature?
In several macOS apps, I can select text, and then control-click and select "Translate ..." from the context menu. For example, here are screenshots from TextEdit.
For Spanish, it ...
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Get the system to use the correct language with the "speak selection" feature
I'm trying to use OS X's native voice-recognition system to speak the highlighted text using the correct language.
I enabled System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speak ...
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How to Auto-switch Text-to-speech Voices on basis of language tags in text
Is anyone aware of a TTS system for Mac which will automatically switch voices on the basis of language tags present in word processing or html text? For example, it would switch to a French voice to ...
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I would like to write in a different language and use spell check, but always using the same keyboard layout
I am writing mostly in English and I use the default "ABC" layout on macbook with macOS Monterey.
Sometimes I get an email in different languages.
I reply them in the same language.
I don't ...
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Separate keyboard layout for each window in macOS Monterey
Is there a way to set up keyboard layouts preferences to have a separate layout for each window?
Use case described step by step:
I use two keyboard layouts: English and non-English one.
I often open ...
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How can I obtain the backslash with a US keyboard configured with a Spanish (ES-ISO) keyboard layout?
I have a Macbook Air with the typical US keyboard layout printed in the keys, but I want to use the keyboard as if it were a Spanish keyboard because I'm accustomed to that layout and since I don't ...
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What is this weird locale and how do you fix it?
One of my apps isn't working because the iPhone is reporting a null locale. Even when setting the language and region to English/USA, this is the result on the Language & Region screen:
and the ...
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How to type in citation letter in Russian on macOS?
I want to type in the citation « in my Russian keyboard but I cannot find any key combination to type it.
How can I type it in macOS?
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QWERTY US - QWERTY International OS Layout
I start to look for a MacBook, I’m French but want to get a QWERTY keyboard for development purposes.
On Windows and Linux, using an American QWERTY keyboard allows a user to write accents with a ...
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How do I switch the app store region on Apple TV?
I recently moved from Japan to the USA. Now I'm trying to use my Apple TV in the USA. When I go to the store and try to install an app it says "You can't use this account on the Japanese store. ...
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Change shortcut system-wide to match keyboard
I know from experience that macOS sets the default keyboard shortcut according to the language choice (and maybe keyboard choice, not sure) at the first setup.
Now I set up my new computer to French (...
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How can I switch to non-default variant of keyboard layout on macOS?
Currently I'm using Apple's Swiss German layout. I'd like to use the regular Swiss German layout but that is not available as a default input source.
The reason for this change is that characters such ...
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Obtaining the Russian Typewriter keyboard layout
This is my very first experience with Apple products. For the last 20+ years, I have been using the Russian Typewriter keyboard layout that is available out-of-the-box in all Windows and GNU/Linux ...
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Typing option+s results in surprise emoji (😮) instead of eszett (ß)
Up until a few days ago typing option+s resulted in the German eszett (ß). Currently typing option+s results in the insertion of the surprise emoji (😮). If I bring up the Keyboard Viewer and press ...
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Is it possible to localize the Mac Welcome Assistant Language to be non English?
I bought new but used Macbook Pro for my mother, and she doesn’t speak English.
But „welcome assistant” screen (which shows first time you open new Mac) is in English. It leads you through region, ...
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Safari offers to translate all web pages -- how to limit to languages I actually do not speak?
In macOS 11.1 "Big Sur", Safari gained the capability of offering translations of web pages. Google's Chrome has a similar feature, and offers to select a set of languages that the user ...
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How does one activate a square bracket on a Spanish Magic keyboard?
I have problem on macOS Big Sur with an my square bracket on my Spanish magic keyboard
I need this to configure shortcuts for my Wacomb tablet and Photoshop.
I've tried changing keyboard language ...
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Change the default keyboard input when logging into macOS Big Sur
Since upgrading to Big Sur, my default keyboard input during the login screen is always 'U.S.'. I need to manually switch it to 'French'.
Is there a way for me to set 'French' as defaut?
In fact, I do ...
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Devanagari font in macOS Terminal not rendering properly
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I have a M1 Mac mini running Big Sur.
I am using Devanagari-QWERTY input method for typing Marathi/Hindi.
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All is well when typing in apps like Pages, Stickies, Safari etc..
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Where is Finder looking up the “localized” version of certain directory names?
I have two directories that have different names in Finder vs Terminal / "ls".
In Finder, the directory is called "Docker". If you drag-and-drop it into the Terminal, as I have ...
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Why does finder in some cases show a different directory name than "ls"? [duplicate]
I have been crawling through my "~/Library/Container" contents and noticed an oddity that I was so far not aware could even exist: I have two directories there that have different names in ...
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How to add characters (accents) to the press and hold character picker in macOS Big Sur?
In macOS Big Sur, 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 ...
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How do you change the date format when modifying an event in Calendar?
I would to change the date format when modifying an event in Calendar. Currently, Calendar shows the date as 12/10/2020 when I go to modify the date/time. This is the same as is displayed above the ...
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Can I fix VMware Fusion to correctly map the tilde / back tick on a British keyboard?
I'm stuck with an odd keyboard layout in Fusion Player v 12.0.1 on macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) and cannot seem to find a way around it.
The keyboard physically is a bluetooth Apple keyboard UK layout ...
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Change highlight color for deadkey previews (like accents: `´^¨) in terminal app
I've been tweaking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a highlighted yellow rectangle showing a ...
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Physical keyboard layout menu not showing when keyboard connected to iPhone / iPad (iOS 13/14)
I am trying to use my Bluetooth keyboard (Mx Keys) with iPhone and iPad.
I can pair them successfully, but they behave as if they were in a different keyboard layout than I expect (I use Polish ...
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Can macOS (Catalina) match a Brazilian Portuguese Windows keyboard layout?
The Windows Portuguese keyboard has a different layout than the Apple Portuguese keyboard:
Here's the Windows version:
Here's the Apple's version:
I don't want to buy a new keyboard or learn a new ...
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How to change the default macOS login window keyboard layout?
I type using a keyboard layout other than the standard QWERTY. This question will apply to those who type using Dvorak, Colemak, QWERTZ, or any other international or non-standard keyboard layout.
My ...
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Ordering an iPhone from different region
So I ordered an iPhone SE from Apple.com It delivers in United States, But I Live in Georgia(Middle East) and The phone will be send to me by mail.
I ordered a phone with unlocked carrier but i'm ...
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UK keyboard layout \ and ` swapped even with ISO keyboard and British PC layout
Normally to get and \ the right way round for a British keyboard you need to change the keyboard layout toBritish - PC`, and you need to convince MacOS that you have an ISO keyboard, rather than an ...
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Localise App Store App Name when name is taken
When adding a new app to the App Store, I usually use the English (UK) localisation as I’m in the UK. Searching for the app name I plan to use, I see it’s already taken, but I’m assuming only for the ...
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Music.app on iOS: use a different language other than the system language?
As explained in the title, I want to use Music.app in a different language other than the system language.
However, unlike many other apps, it doesn't offer such an option in settings.
I'm ...
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Incorrect phone number format when dialing from iPhone
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iOS 13.4 (also affected 13.3.x)
Carrier: AT&T
e-SIM (no physical SIM)
On a recent trip out of the U.S. I added a 2nd SIM card and a local calling plan (Turkcell) so I could use my phone ...
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