Questions tagged [language]
Refer to a human language, rather than a programming language. See also the [internationalization] tag. For progamming language, use the specific tags of that language.
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Do British English keyboards have ISO layout when bought from Apple US?
I want to buy a MacBook from the Apple US store, but I want a British English keyboard layout, specifically with the ISO layout for the Return/Enter key. Do British English keyboards have ISO layout ...
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How to stop MacOS automatically jumping out of full screen programs?
When playing a video game that takes up the whole screen, MacOS will regularly, several times during a session, hide the game window to highlight another program (an arbitrary one that has been used ...
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To tell macOS to always translate selected text from English, and not from some another language
When I select an English word in English text and open the context menu to ask macOS to translate it, the system often tries to translate it from the wrong language, e.g. Norwegian: Is there a way to ...
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Can the bilingual keyboard functionality in iOS 18 be completely disabled?
I just upgraded to iOS 18 on my phone, which brought with it the very unwelcome change that most of my keyboard layouts are now ‘bilingual’. I do not ever want any of my keyboard layouts to be ...
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How to change language (Lithuanian) on iPad with magic keyboard?
I have an iPad 11 Air 2024. And I also have magic keyboard. The problem is I cannot write letters such as ą or č or ū and so more. I can only press on my iPad that shows a letter, hold it for 2s and ...
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Cannot change terminal language despite doing everything seemingly correctly, GUI is translated
Happening on macOS: 14.4.1 I can't change through the GUI as this is required to be done for several languages and needs to be automated, the different locales will be in a script. Everything I tried ...
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How can I remove unintended localization of the Force Quit Applications dialog?
Last Friday I updated my MacBook Pro (16", Nov '23) to macOS Sequoia (15.0). The OS language is English, but since the update, the body of the Force Quit Applications dialog is in Dutch: My ...
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Change output language of internal commands like "lpstat"?
I've written some AppleScripts that run shell commands like lpstat -a and lpstat -l -p and parse the output with grep and awk. The scripts work correctly in English-language system, but the output is ...
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Language Pop Up Firefox
I know this has been asked but yet to find an answer. Recently I'm getting the language pop up on my screen when using Mozilla Firefox, as per the attached photo. It is so annoying, seems to be linked ...
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How to change language for automatic spelling correction on iPhone?
I want my iOS to recognise both UK and US spellings as correct, but prioritise one over the other, depending on which is the primary language used (but that's secondary). I came across solutions, ...
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Pinning/fixing the order of the languages (input sources / keyboard layouts) on macOS
I'm wondering if there's a way to control the order of languages used on my Mac. The Problem: As you can see in the screenshot, I regularly use four languages: English (EN), Turkish (TR), Russian (RU),...
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Default keyboard layout for lock screen
I use several keyboard layouts throughout the day, but my main one is English, which I also use to type my login password. The problem is that after a reboot, the layout is set to a language other ...
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How do I add Bulgarian spell check to MacBook M1 macOS Monterey?
I remember getting it to work somehow on my old MacBook but no such luck so far on this time around. I know I need .aff and/or .dic files but where do I get those? Also when I add this to my MacBook, ...
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What enables/prevents changing language for a given application?
In theory, I can configure (via the system preferences) any application to run under a specific language (different from the default system langauge). However, for some applications this option is ...
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How to show input language indicator when a input field is focused?
Problem I type in multiple languages and it bothers me that I have to correct my input if the keyboard is not my expected language. Looking up the input source in the menu bar is not convenient for me....
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