Main Page Updated for Mojave

I have updated the main Multilingual Mac page to cover MacOS 10.14 Mojave here.

Comments and Corrections Welcome

MacOS 10.14 Mojave: Fonts and User Guide

Apple's list of fonts included in Mojave can be found here.

Also available is an online User Guide.

And a list of Basic Support Articles for using languages.

MacOS: Typing Kurdish

A poster in the Apple Support Communities (ASC) has pointed out that the Kurdish input source provided with MacOS does not have the mapping officially promoted by the Kurdish Regional Government.  For one that does conform to this, go here.  Another version can be found on this page.

MacOS 10.14 Mojave: Japanese Input

One of the new features in MacOS 10.14 Mojave is supposed to be "romanized keyboard input for Japanese" or "romanized English input for Japanese Keyboard".

I had a hard time figuring out what this referred to, but thanks to info provided by Magnus Lewan it appears to be a feature making it easier to type English words in the middle of Japanese text.  Some explanation in Japanese is here.

iOS 12: New Language Features

+New definition dictionary for Hebrew, and bilingual dictionaries for Arabic/English and Hindi/English.

+Siri translation of phrases in more languages, with support for over 40 language pairs

+More natural and expressive voice for Irish English, S. African English, Danish, Norwegian, Cantonese, and Mandarin (Taiwan).

Comments from readers welcome regarding any others.

World Communication Languages

Some fascinating maps of the languages used in international communications are available at

https://seekinganewpath.github.io/world-communications/

MacOS Mojave 10.14: Possible New Language Features

From the Apple site:

Mac is more fluent than ever.  MacOS Mojave adds UK English, Australian English, Canadian French, and Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong language options; improved maps for China; and romanized keyboard input for Japanese.

MacOS: Fixing Mixed Localizations

A good number of users have been reporting that their user interface is showing some menus or dialogues in two different languages.   A possible fix for this can be found on this page.

iOS 11.3: New Language Features

Adds two new Shuangpin keyboard layouts

Adds support for connected hardware keyboards using the Turkish F keyboard layout

Improves Chinese and Japanese keyboards for better reachability on 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch devices

Fixes an issue that could cause the Thai keyboard to incorrectly switch to the numeric layout when in landscape mode

Numbers App Gets Right - to - Left Tables for Arabic/Hebrew

Numbers 5.0 released by Apple March 27 finally includes a setting for "Table Direction" which lets Arabic/Hebrew users start spreadsheets which read from right to left in column order.

Language Learning in the USA

More info on K-12 and College Level.

MacOS: Windows US International Keyboard

The US International keyboard layout used in Windows differs considerably from Apple's US International PC layout on the option/alt level.  You can get a test version of one for Mac which conforms to the Windows layout here.

iOS: Screen Keyboard with Full Hardware Layout

Among the many 3rd party screen keyboards available for iOS, I recently found one called PADKEYS that imitates the normal hardware keyboard layout, with a number/punctuation row at the top, an option key for symbols and accents,  cursor keys, etc.  Covers English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

MacOS Keyboard Language Switching Bug

In MacOS 10.13.2, it appears that you cannot switch directly from Chinese/Japanese/Korean to Cyrillic/Arabic/Hebrew/Greek keyboard layouts.  In order to get the correct results, you must first switch to US or another Latin input source.

It's possible other keyboards are involved, but these are the ones where I have seen complaints and tested myself.

Hopefully this bug will be fixed in a future update.

(Appears to be fixed in 10.13.4)