Remove foreign language keyboard layout

How do i remove à keyboard layout?

Have you went to Settings>General>Keyboards>International Keyboards and tried to delete the unwanted keyboards? You only have the delete option if you have more than one keyboard.

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  • Why the Unavailability of Foreign Language Keyboards in the US?

    I am a foreign language student (Russian), and am trying to buy a foreign language apple keyboard (preferably wireless) in the states. I know they are available in Europe (my stepdaughter confirms she can get one thriugh her apple store), yet when I try to do the same here, they deny they even exist!! (This is the case even on the online store!!!)
    I tried to order one from one of the European Stores online (actually, more than one) and it won't let me complete the order, even if I make payment in the local currency (pounds, euros, francs, rubles, or what have you).
    This is a frustrating (and in my opinion, fairly serious) problem, and I am sure I am not the only one who is going through this fiasco. I certainly don't want to pay 5x the price via a "smuggler", I would rather get peripherials FOR my apple FROM apple.
    So Apple, what gives? There's a market for these products here, my MacBook Pro WILL support this product... So why won't you let me buy one (or even admit to me you even have such a thing, when those overseas have free access to them)?
    Message was edited by: TheRoadhouse

    TheRoadhouse wrote:
    I am a foreign language student (Russian), and am trying to buy a foreign language apple keyboard (preferably wireless) in the states. I know they are available in Europe (my stepdaughter confirms she can get one thriugh her apple store), yet when I try to do the same here, they deny they even exist!! (This is the case even on the online store!!!)
    I tried to order one from one of the European Stores online (actually, more than one) and it won't let me complete the order, even if I make payment in the local currency (pounds, euros, francs, rubles, or what have you).
    This is a frustrating (and in my opinion, fairly serious) problem, and I am sure I am not the only one who is going through this fiasco. I certainly don't want to pay 5x the price via a "smuggler", I would rather get peripherials FOR my apple FROM apple.
    So Apple, what gives? There's a market for these products here, my MacBook Pro WILL support this product... So why won't you let me buy one (or even admit to me you even have such a thing, when those overseas have free access to them)?
    Message was edited by: TheRoadhouse
    I do not want to get on your case, but Apple is a business, one that tries to make a profit. Carrying items in inventory that serve a tiny number of individuals in the US actually costs them money. But they'd also have to carry inventory in every single foreign language keyboard, and the costs become huge.
    Moreover, and with all due respect, if you're here in the US studying, you really need a US English keyboard. And as the other poster said, you have access to the Russian character map for keys, so if you have to write home, you can write in Russian, and you'll be happy.
    By the way, all of us here are users like you. Getting annoyed hardly ever gets you help. If you want to complain to Apple go here.

  • Foreign language keyboard

    Hi, I am a complete AppleMac novice, so far always went for a "regular" PC. I have a question which may appear very silly, bear with me. I work with 4 languages as a translator (English/German/French/Portuguese) and I need a Lapttop with a "Continental" keyboard where all the various foreign character keys are already present. A UK/US keyboard is no good as I need the speed of direct input. As Apple sells in Switzerland, where all those special keys are needed I could imagine that Apple produces machines with Continental keyboards. Does anybody know if it would be possible to obtain such an "continental" Apple MacPro in the UK? Grateful for any answer. Thank you, merci, vielen Dank, obrigado

    You can determine for yourself what keyboards are available from the Apple online store in the UK by just going to their website and pretending to buy a macabook and looking at the keyboard options offered.
    Are you aware that even the normal US or British keyboard layout lets you type all accented characters directly by either a) Character Picker, which appears when you hold down the key for the base letter, or b) option key shortcuts like option + e, then e = é?
    The US International PC keyboard layout is also great for multilingual work, as all you do is type the accent mark first and then the base character, e.g. ' then e gives you é.
    Continental keyboards are quite different, many are azerty or qwertz instead of qwerty, and normally only a few accented characters for the local language can be typed without using any kind of shortcut, etc.  You can see what they look like at
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2841

  • How can i disable Illustrator from changing my language / keyboard layout.

    I have an azerty laptop and a qwerty external keyboard. Switching from any application to illustrator changes the language and therefore also my keyboard layout. No other application does this.

    Thanks for the reply Mike
    But i have a laptop with azerty layout (Belgian) and an external qwerty keyboard (Brittish).
    So i need both languages selected in the System Pref >> Keyboard >> Input source
    When "Brittish" is selected and i switch from Apple Mail to Photoshop to Skype to Chrome to ... it all works fine.
    Only when i switch to Illustrator it also changes my language/layout from "Brittish" to "Belgian" and stays like that. I need to manually change it back in the menu in Finder.
    I like the brittish better (with a qwerty keyboard) because of the shortcuts (eg. sqare brackets -> shortcuts for order in Illustrator are not even on an azerty (Belgian) keyboard).
    Any idea?
    b.

  • Input options: Language & Keyboard Layout

    I've not found a complete answer to my problem.
    I live in Paris and London. I work in English and French. I write emails and texts in English and French. I do not want to switch between keyboard layouts (EN and FR) just to change the language. I dont know the FR keyboard layout and it's unreasonable to think that I should have to switch to that layout just to get french input language support (predictive typing support).
    How can I use the EN layout and type in French and English. I dont mind pushing a button to switch, like my Sony Erikson, i just hold down a key and it lets me switch input languages - but doesn't change my keyboard layout.
    Am I wrong to assume this is unreasonable? What options do I have ?
    thanks

    I have exactly the same problem and it is driving me crazy to such an extent I am considering abandoning the iPhone; I am British but I have to write alot of messages in French and the iphone is always replacing the correct French words with British ones!
    It seems that Apple has not yet understood that one can work in several languages at once; I live in Switzerland so I am only offered French versions of software and hardware on the Apple site when I want British ones - it was impossible to buy a 17 inch laptop with a British keyboard here even though there are many thousands of English speaking residents.
    If you here of a solution I should be very grateful to know about it

  • Temporary change of default language/keyboard layout

    I've started learning Arabic and I would like to be able to use Pages to type out written work. I'm aware that I'll have to figure out which keys correspond to which letter in Arabic but I can't figure out how to get to the stage whereby I can write in Arabic script. Is it possible to have my Pages layout in English but that I can type in Arabic script? I'm pretty sure I'm not good enough at the language yet to load the whole program in English.
    Thanks to anyone who can help. I've been trying to figure it out for ages.

    Pages has various bugs that make using it for Arabic undesirable for most people. But it can't hurt to give it a try.
    Go to system prefs/international/input menu and check the box for Arabic Qwerty, plus the box for Show Input Menu in Finder, then select Arabic in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder and type.
    To see which key does what, use Keyboard Viewer, also activated via the input menu.

  • Foreign Language Keyboards

    Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I want to type in languages other then English, preferably without buying new keyboards. I feel like there should be a way to download a widget or something that will integrate with my text program and allow me to see what the foreign keyboard looks like on the bottom of my screen while I type on my US keyboard - and the text will appear in the other language. Specifically, languages like Hebrew or Arabic which have different characters. Any ideas?
    thanks

    Even worse is the Pashtu scripting style commonly used in Pakistan which effectively so intertwines the characters that Newspaper headlines are still handlettered today and stripped into the typeset copy.
    See the thread on Apple Advanced Typography. The thread cites the Monotype Recorder for 1981. This was the year Monotype Nastaliq was introduced for the Farsi and Urdu markets.
    The implementation was developed, as the thread says, in co-operation with the Pakistan association of lithographic printers.
    Before a team of Cambridge phycists headed by Prof Dr John Billingsley in 1976 finished developing a laser imaging system with funding from the Monotype Corporation, and before that system was applied to the most complex Arabic calligraphy, Nastaliq was calligraphed, the calligraphy photographed, and the reproductions photographically copied onto the printing surface. The first metal composition of Monotype Naskh for the western Arabic market was in 1976 and IBM did not introduce a daisywheel Selectric for Naskh until the mid-nineteen seventies. Dr Joseph Becker's article on Arabic composition in the Xerox Star operating system appeared in Scientific American in 1984 (the table-based transform approach had by then been sold by Monotype for four years, which US writers tend to 'forget' as Monotype was not perceived as a US supplier).
    The rub with the Arabic script and with Indic scripts is indeed that, "Aesthetics can play such a large part of what is found acceptable that mere mechanical methods of laying out text fails." Where does the border lie between incorrect orthography, correct orthography with lowend typography, and correct orthography with highend typography. The Unicode/TrueType idea was to leave this to the type maker who in the obligatory simple CMAP shaping would support correct orthography with lowend typography and in the optional smart MORX shaping would support such level of sophistication as suited the design and the market. If people expect to get highend Arabic TrueType with endless ligation and intonations for recitals and much else for free, then this is not going to happen.
    Incidentally, Adobe's Arabic contains PostScript. It was developed by John Hudson who had to hop through hoops backwards since Microsoft VOLT does not support PostScript, so the shaping logic had to be copied and pasted. If memory serves Apple's tools do not support PostScript either. Anyway, what this discussion needs is a few folks with advanced knowledge of Arabic calligraphy. And I'm absolutely not one such.
    hh

  • Toggling between foreign language keyboards possible?

    Hi!
    I am learning Hebrew and would like to make flash cards on my Mac, which means I'll be typing in both English and Hebrew. I've already successfully set up the Hebrew and English keyboards via the International Preference Pane.
    My question is: *Can I toggle between the Hebrew and English keyboard??* This would be such a huge help (vs having to use the mouse!).
    Thank you!!

    yes, you can. go to system preferences->international->input menu. check the box next to Hebrew. This will activate input menu in your menu bar. you can switch between inputs there. also, you can use keyboard shortcuts to do it that way. i don't remember what are the default shortcuts to toggle input menus but you can see them in system preferences->keyboard&mouse->keyboard shortcuts. you can also change them to what you want there.

  • Remove Unnecessary Keyboard Layout

    Hi there
    I'm currently building my Windows 8.1 x64 Enterprise Image via SCCM 2012 R2. I'm using the following answer file for setting the region and language.
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="specialize">
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <InputLocale>de-CH</InputLocale>
    <SystemLocale>de-CH</SystemLocale>
    <UILanguage>de-CH</UILanguage>
    <UILanguageFallback>de-CH</UILanguageFallback>
    <UserLocale>de-CH</UserLocale>
    </component>
    </settings>
    </unattend>
    After the installation there are the following keyboard layouts available:
    - 1: German (Switzerland)
    - 2: French (Switzerland)
    - 3: German (Germany)
    Currently i'm removing 2 / 3 via a User GPP (Keyboard Layout\Preload). But this only affects the current user. Is there any way how i can remove those Layout
    globally and set it to "German (Switzerland)" Only?
    Thanks in advance

    Hi,
    Apologize for my misunderstanding, now, I understand that the goal you want to achieve is to remove the other two keyboard layouts for new created users.
    Similiar to the solution you used for current users, we can apply the same registry settings (\Keyboard Layout\Preload)under the Computer Configuration\preference\Windows Settings\Registry, then apply the GPP, for newly created users, who logons onto the
    machine, the GPP will be applied to remove the additional keyboard layouts.
    Regards
    Yolanda Zhu
    TechNet Community Support

  • My keyboard layout has changed. I no longer have an @ key.

    About an hour ago, my keyboard layout changed (but only when using firefox) so that, for example, Shift+2 no longer produces @, but rather double quotes ("). Also, pressing the [ key now produces nothing, but the next key I hit after it will produce a hat. Example, the [ key and a g will give ^g. There are other peculiarities, such as the / key now shows é, and a few others.
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    See:
    * http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/The-Language-bar-overview The Language bar (overview)
    It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.
    * Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar.
    * You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar.
    * Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar.
    * You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application.
    * The default keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
    * To avoid an unintentional switch assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctr+Shift)

  • CS3 Language Keyboard Input Error

    Greetings All,
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  • Firefox keyboard layout changes to something I don't recognize, the traditional [ QWERTY ] reads as [ ',.pyf ] any idea why this would happen or how to change it back short of killing firefox and restarting.

    This happens randomly and infrequently. At first I thought it was my cats fault but it has recently happened while I was sitting at the computer with no feline interference. If someone could let me know how, if it's possible, to change the keyboard layout to QWERTY I will try this next time it happens to see if it can be corrected without restarting firefox. For a larger sample I will include the lines below:
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    See:
    * http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/The-Language-bar-overview - The Language bar (overview)
    It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.
    * Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar.
    * You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar.
    * Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar.
    * You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application.
    * The default keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
    * To avoid an unintentional switch assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctr+Shift)
    * Vista: Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change keyboards > Advanced key settings > Change key sequence

  • HT1296 new i-pad 2 stuck in foreign language

    Help!!
    new i-pad 2 stuck in foreign language, keyboard OK, start screen is dutch or something!!

    cnse55 wrote:
    Help!!
    new i-pad 2 stuck in foreign language, ...
    Try here  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2371
    Also see this discussion...
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4996006?tstart=0

  • [SOLVED] After a crash, my languages and keyboard layouts are gone!

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  • Poor keyboard when used in foreign languages using accented characters

    I'm looking for a replacement to the built-in virtual keyboard of the iPad (same thing for the iPod or the iPhone). This keyboard is fun to use in english but carry lot of problems for someone who want to write in foreign languages, where accented characters are used. Those characters are available, but in such way that they are unusable for someone who need to do serious work, let say in french, german or spanish.
    I can't find an App that do this job. Is there one?
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    Sorry, there will be no immediate or short-term fixes through an app.
    Those who need or want to do "... serious work..." on the iPad, by which I guess you must mean a lot of typing, need to get a keyboard to do it with, the current choice being between the Keyboard/Dock and a selection of wireless BT models. I'm going to assume that using one of those will give you as close to the functionality of a 'normal' setup as you're likely see on the iPad.
    As for some fix in a future iOS release, you should first think out exactly how you would like them to fix this issue, describe it in some detail, and then forward it along to Apple via their established
    FEEDBACK FORM — http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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