tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61796005103769409592024-03-13T09:36:33.264-06:00Multilingual MacDevoted to tips and other info on how to use your Mac to read and write languages other than EnglishTom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comBlogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-2270667216153693642023-12-16T08:24:00.000-07:002023-12-16T08:24:29.408-07:00MacOS: New Arabic Keyboard LayoutThanks to Farid Alkorashy, there is a new Arabic keyboard for MacOS for those who need or prefer the Windows Arabic layout. Unlike Apple's "Arabic PC" input source, it puts Arabic numbers (instead of the Hindu form) on the top level, so there is no need to use Caps Lock to access them. You can download it here.
Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-7370550498840152972023-09-13T07:54:00.001-06:002023-09-13T07:54:19.912-06:00iOS 17: New Language FeaturesApple's preview of iOS 17 indicates the following new language features:
QuickPath support added for Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, and Romanian keyboards.
Predictive text added for Hebrew, Polish, and Romanian keyboards.
Multilingual typing support added for Polish, Romanian, and Turkish keyboards.
New keyboard layouts: Akan, Chuvash, Hausa, Hmong (Pahawh), Ingush, Kabyle, Liangshan Yi, Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-2803410354198048462023-09-13T07:03:00.007-06:002023-09-13T07:03:53.884-06:00MacOS 14 Sonoma: New Language FeaturesApple's Preview of MacOS 14 Sonoma released 9/12/23 indicates the following new language features:
Predictive text added for Hebrew, Polish, and Romanian keyboards.
New keyboard layouts: Chuvash, Hmong (Pahawh), Ingush, Kabyle, Mandaic, Mi’kmaw, N’Ko, Osage, Rejang, Tamazight (Standard Moroccan), Wancho, and Wolastoqey
New transliteration keyboards: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu
Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-62864363771730857712023-04-05T10:02:00.000-06:002023-04-05T10:02:12.761-06:00MacOS Ventura Update 13.3 Has New KeyboardsApple's recent MacOS update 13.3 includes the following new language features:
+Transliteration support for Gujarati, Punjabi, and Urdu keyboards
+New keyboard layouts for Choctaw, Chickasaw, Akan, Hausa, and Yoruba
Although not mentioned in the release notes, this update also fixes a bug dating from MacOS 12 in the Unicode Hex input source which made certain characters unavailable.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-40102054637901265972023-03-08T11:10:00.001-07:002023-03-08T11:12:11.246-07:00Typing SanskritWhile MacOS comes with a Sanskrit Devanagari keyboard, this lacks a number of characters that users of this language may require, including special symbols and Vedic accents and cantillation marks. If you need those, check out the Keyman app and its Vedic Sanskrit Devanagari Phonetic Keyboard.
This keyboard is also available for iOS and browser use.
If you need to type transliterated Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-13256755208385745382022-12-16T12:30:00.003-07:002022-12-17T06:30:15.530-07:00MacOS: New Cuneiform Input MethodThanks to Marco Sartori, a new input method is availble for typing Cuneiform script, which is used to write various languages of the ancient Middle East. It can be downloaded from this page.
Put the .inputplugin file in Library/Input Methods or Home/Library/Input Methods, logout/login, and then activate it via the plus button in System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources. Look for it in the Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-862769845908132032022-10-19T13:17:00.002-06:002022-10-19T13:21:20.288-06:00MacOS 13 Ventura: New Language Features available Oct. 24Apple plans to release MacOS Ventura on Monday, Oct. 24, and has published a new list of features. As far as I can tell, the new language features are the same as reported here earlier.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-37382332081669426122022-08-31T13:21:00.001-06:002022-08-31T13:21:50.740-06:00Apple Hardware Keyboards for Non-Latin ScriptsSee this page for info on Apple's keyboards for Arabic, Bulgarian*, Greek*, Hebrew*, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese (Zhuyin), Thai*, and Ukrainian. The keyboards marked with an asterisk are not available in the US online store and may be difficult to find outside the country where they are used., Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-59777138875327600072022-06-07T08:50:00.005-06:002022-06-07T08:50:55.889-06:00iOS 16: New Language FeaturesApple has published a preview of the new features in iOS 16 to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include:
System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh
Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish
Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English
Translation: Turkish, Thai, Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-40393852555821098362022-06-07T06:52:00.001-06:002022-06-07T06:53:46.740-06:00MacOS 13 Ventura: New Language FeaturesApple has published a preview of the new features in MacOS 13 Ventura to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include:
System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh
Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish
Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English
Translation: Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-90507691482657604092022-05-17T07:10:00.001-06:002022-05-17T07:10:44.746-06:00MacOS 12.4: New Icons for Keyboard LayoutsThe latest update of MacOS 12 Monterey replaces the remaining multicolor country flag icons for different language keyboard layout with black/white symbols containing idenfying characters for the language.
Users who want to keep the traditional flags can make a customized layout with any icon they want with Ukelele.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-91192831965027542082022-04-26T15:16:00.002-06:002022-04-26T15:16:36.969-06:00Apple Ukrainian KeyboardsApple has recently started selling stand-alone Ukrainian keyboards, which I don't remember ever being offered before. For more info see this page.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-53265519414019267222022-03-11T08:51:00.000-07:002022-03-11T08:51:07.456-07:00MacOS: New Hungarian Qwerty KeyboardThe Hungarian Qwerty input source that comes with MacOS does not have any semicolon. Here is a version which has that character and others in the same position as the normal Hungarian (Qwertz) input source.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-46385119261904130182022-02-22T21:39:00.005-07:002022-03-16T14:31:20.569-06:00MacOS: Russian Keyboard Layouts Without Russian FlagApple has long provided English keyboard layouts with an ABC icon for English speakers who prefer not to have the US or other country flag in the top right corner of their screen all the time. Here you can find a set of Russian language keyboards that have a generic Cyrillic "Я" icon instead of a national flag.
(Install the .bundle file in /Library/Keyboard Layouts or Home/Library/Keyboard Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-68427261015115953922022-02-11T10:56:00.002-07:002022-02-11T10:58:34.586-07:00MacOS: Russian PC Keyboard Layout ErrorA poster the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the Russian PC keyboard layout supplied with MacOS and iOS has an error: The key which is supposed to produce Ё (U+0401, Cyrillic Capital Letter IO) actually produces Ë (U+00CB, Latin Capital Letter E with Diaresis). A custom layout that corrects this for MacOS can be found here.
It's not possible yet to make custom hardware layouts Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-2256512957947881812021-11-03T12:25:00.003-06:002021-11-03T12:37:13.983-06:00MacOS: Hardware Language Keyboard AvailabilityApple produces a large number of different keyboards for specific languages, but which ones you can get depends on where you live. Each country has its own selection of them for sale, and Apple stores do not ship outside their own country, so getting a particular keyboard can be frustrating.
Even the US online store only has about half the total variety of keyboards. Those not available in Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-67801041049653608462021-10-28T10:05:00.007-06:002021-10-29T17:55:45.607-06:00Mac OS 12 Monterey Released: New Language FeaturesMacOS 12 Monterey was released October 25, 2021. There are no new system languages or spell check languages, but several new language keyboards: Amharic (Ge'ez), Assyrian (Syriac), Fula (Adlam), Igbo, Navajo, and Rohingya.
The keyboard shortcut to bring up the Character Viewer (Emoji & Symbols) has been changed to Fn E.
A list of help articles for Monterey on language issues can be found at Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-5661345037286496622021-06-08T07:28:00.004-06:002021-06-08T14:49:02.319-06:00iOS: New Language Features in iPadOS 15Apple has released a preview of new features in iPadOS 15 to be issued later this year. Below are the parts of interest in the language area:
+Vietnamese VNI and VIQR keyboards
+QuickPath for more languages: Dutch, Hindi (Latin), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
+New keyboard layouts: Ainu, Amharic, Fula (Adlam), Igbo, Navajo, Rohingya, Syriac, and Tigrinya .
+Enhanced 10-key Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-24029994514881277352021-06-08T06:13:00.009-06:002021-06-11T09:31:27.397-06:00MacOS: New Language Features in MacOS 12 MontereyApple has released a preview of new features in MacOS 12 Monterey, which will be issued in the fall of 2021. Below are the parts that relate to languages.
+New keyboard layouts: Ainu, Amharic, Fula (Adlam), Igbo, Navajo, Rohingya, Syriac, and Tigrinya
+New Voice Control languages, including Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), French (France), and German (Germany).
+Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-47490671364996625452021-05-01T14:05:00.002-06:002021-05-01T14:05:46.572-06:00MacOS: ABC Extended Keyboard Further ExtendedA poster in the Apple Support Communities (ASC) has pointed out that Apple's ABC Extended keyboard layout lacks the ability to produced chracters with the diaeresis below diacritic. This is useful for certain romanization systems for the Arabic script used in a wide range of languages. A custom ABC Extended layout which includes Combining Diaeresis Below at Option-Shift R is available here.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-49207405807505649502020-11-18T16:29:00.004-07:002020-11-18T16:33:23.835-07:00MacOS 11 Big Sur Language Support ArticlesLinks to Apple's language support articles for Big Sur.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-88038903476319801452020-11-17T11:34:00.004-07:002020-12-12T08:42:24.625-07:00MacOS 11: New Language Features Apple's
documentation indicates that Big Sur should have at least the following new language
features:+New bilingual dictionaries include French–German, Indonesian–English,
Japanese–Simplified Chinese, and Polish‑English. +New fonts for India include 20
new document fonts. In addition, 18 existing fonts have been upgraded with more
weights and italics +Enhanced predictive input for Chinese and Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-67981573521541444472020-08-21T15:06:00.001-06:002020-08-21T15:06:10.664-06:00MacOS: Extra Spellcheck DictionariesUsers who need MacOS spellcheck dictionaries for languages not yet covered by Apple should check this site.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-24950745026148743402020-08-04T06:34:00.003-06:002020-08-05T13:32:35.464-06:00MacOS: Portuguese PC Keyboard LayoutThe Apple and Windows layouts for Portuguese differ considerably, and Apple has not yet provided a "Portuguese PC" input source for those wishing to use a Windows keyboard with their Mac. This page may provide a custom layout that meets these needs.Tom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-73158284132531547532020-07-22T06:30:00.002-06:002020-07-23T03:23:26.864-06:00iOS 14: New Language Features Promised
See the sections on Translate, Siri, Safari, International, and Keyboard in this Apple note for info on new language features expected in iOS 14 to be released later this year.
Here is more info on the new Translate app.
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