OS X: Fixes for Broken Character Picker

If you find that you no longer have the Character Picker (that's the popup menu with accented versions of the key you are holding down), I've seen two fixes that sometimes work:

+Use the plus and add buttons in system preferences/keyboard/input sources to add another keyboard like French or Spanish to your list of active keyboard layouts.

+Go to system preferences/keyboard and toggle the key repeat rate to Off and then on again.

Reboot afterwards.

iWork for iCloud Gets Expanded Language Capabilities

On Nov. 21 Apple updated its iWork web apps -- Pages, Numbers, and Keynote beta for iCloud -- to include 8 new languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Simpified Chinese, and Spanish.

Pages (but not the others) can finally do RTL text input, Arabic and Hebrew.

Indic scripts are still not supported.

OS X Yosemite: Update Fixes Japanese Input Issue

The official release notes for the OS X 10.10.1 update include:

+Addresses an issue that might prevent entering text in Japanese

I'm not sure sure exactly what that issue was, there have been various reports of Japanese problems in the ASC.  If someone finds out, let me know.