Multilingual Mac

Apple has announced the new features to be provided in the updated Mac and other OS versions to be released later this year. This includes...

Apple has published info about the new features in the 2024 updates of MacOS and iOS . As far as I can tell, the only new language featur...

A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the MacOS Dhivehi keyboard has the wrong ounctuation characters for that scr...

For users who need to be able to type Haitian Creole on Mac devices, the normal US English keyboard should be sufficient. This language o...

Thanks to Farid Alkorashy, there is a new Arabic keyboard for MacOS for those who need or prefer the Windows Arabic layout. Unlike Apple...

Apple's preview of iOS 17 indicates the following new language features: QuickPath support added for Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, an...

Apple's Preview of MacOS 14 Sonoma released 9/12/23 indicates the following new language features: Predictive text added for Hebrew, Po...

Apple's recent MacOS update 13.3 includes the following new language features: +Transliteration support for Gujarati, Punjabi, and Urd...

While MacOS comes with a Sanskrit Devanagari keyboard, this lacks a number of characters that users of this language may require, including ...

Thanks to Marco Sartori, a new input method is availble for typing Cuneiform script , which is used to write various languages of the ancien...

Apple 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 ...

See this page for info on Apple's keyboards for Arabic, Bulgarian*, Greek*, Hebrew*, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese (Zhuyin), Thai...

Apple has published a preview of the new features in iOS 16 to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include: Sy...

Apple has published a preview of the new features in MacOS 13 Ventura to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions in...

The latest update of MacOS 12 Monterey replaces the remaining multicolor country flag icons for different language keyboard layout with blac...

Apple has recently started selling stand-alone Ukrainian keyboards, which I don't remember ever being offered before. For more info see...

The Hungarian Qwerty input source that comes with MacOS does not have any semicolon. Here is a version which has that character and others...

Apple has long provided English keyboard layouts with an ABC icon for English speakers who prefer not to have the US or other country flag i...

A poster the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the Russian PC keyboard layout supplied with MacOS and iOS has an error: The ke...

Apple produces a large number of different keyboards for specific languages, but which ones you can get depends on where you live. Each cou...

MacOS 12 Monterey was released October 25, 2021. There are no new system languages or spell check languages, but several new language keybo...

Apple 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 ar...

Apple 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 rela...

A poster in the Apple Support Communities (ASC) has pointed out that Apple's ABC Extended keyboard layout lacks the ability to produced ...

Links to Apple's language support articles for Big Sur.

Apple's documentation indicates that Big Sur should have at least the following new language features: +New bilingual dictionaries incl...

Users who need MacOS spellcheck dictionaries for languages not yet covered by Apple should check this site.

The Apple and Windows layouts for Portuguese differ considerably, and Apple has not yet provided a "Portuguese PC" input source fo...

See the sections on Translate, Siri, Safari, International, and Keyboard in this Apple note for info on new language features expected in ...

Some laptop users want to have different language input sources for their internal keyboard and an external one the use for certain purpose...

I don't know exactly when they were added, but I have just noticed that my current version of MacOS  Catalina has the following new (an...

MacOS 10.15 Catalina includes a new Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard, but it does not do the Command level correctly, so that common shortcuts f...

For a good and up-to-date instruction on how to customize the press and hold popup menus in MacOS, see this page.

It appears that the Brazilian ABNT2 input source provided by Apple can have the characters to the left of the 1 key and to the left of the ...

A new feature of MacOS 10.15 Catalina is Cantonese Chinese input, which is explained in this Apple doc. . So far it is only possible via ...

French Canadian users switching from Windows to Mac who want to keep using the Windows Canadian French keyboard mapping will need to instal...

For users need to work in Old Turkic, keyboards and other resources can be found at this site. Thanks to  Emir Yâsin SARI for this info.

I have updated the main Multilingual Mac page to cover Catalina. Comments/corrections from readers are welcome.

From the International section of Apple's Catalina Features Page. +Cantonese keyboard predictions: The new Cantonese predictions for ...

Because Mac and Windows keyboard layouts for many languages are slightly different, it can be confusing to use an Apple hardware keyboard w...

See the sections on Language Support, China, and India in this Apple note.

If you want to use two keyboards and have the mac automatically switch input sources depending on which one is active, try this app.

Users who have to switch from the standard US ANSI keyboard to the European ISO version, which has an additional key between Shift and Z, a...

The poster mitjam in the Apple Support Communities has created two custom Slovenian keyboard layouts which readers who use that language ma...

For users wishing to supplement the Armenian keyboards supplied by Apple with a "phonetic" version like the one that comes with W...

While MacOS has had apps enabling ordinary users to easily make custom keyboard layouts (e.g. Ukelele ) for a long time already,  the same ...

In a recent discussion in the Apple Support Community (ASC) a user complained that a certain Chinese character was not being displayed cor...

Apple's Chinese Input Methods do not yet include one for Cantonese.  Those who need this should check the following pages for some opti...

I have updated the main Multilingual Mac page to cover MacOS 10.14 Mojave here. Comments and Corrections Welcome

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 Art...