Using Pages with foreign languages

I have often the need to write in Spanish, French and German. My system is default to american english. How can I change languages and apply the appropriate language dictionary for spelling check and grammar?

Inspector > Text > More > Language

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Sometimes they are normal, sometimes not. The body of text (paragraphs) usually are normal and the headlines and banners are foreign.
Is this a Safari issue or something else?
thx Jeff

Hi
Go to Safari Preferences>Appearance. The Default Encoding ought to read "Western (ISO Latin 1). If your setting is different, click on the drop down menu and change to the above. Then, try a web site.

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I'm trying to convert foreign language characters to English looking characters. I have code that works, but only if I hard code the string with foreign language characters and pass it to the function. I cannot figure out how to get my program to read
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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim FileRdr As StreamReader = New StreamReader "m:\test\charReplace.txt", System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)
Dim ReplaceWrtr As StreamWriter ReplaceWrtr = System.IO.File.CreateText("M:\test\CharReplaceOut.txt")
Do While FileRdr.Peek() >= 0
Dim currentRec As String = FileRdr.ReadLine
removeAccent(currentRec)
ReplaceWrtr.WriteLine(currentRec)
Loop
ReplaceWrtr.Close()
End Sub
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Function removeAccent(ByVal myString As String)
Dim A As String = "--"
Dim B As String = "--"
Const AccChars As String = "ŠŽšžŸÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýÿ"
Const RegChars As String = "SZszYAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnooooouuuuyy"
For i As Integer = 1 To Len(AccChars)
A = Mid(AccChars, i, 1)
B = Mid(RegChars, i, 1)
myString = Replace(myString, A, B)
Next
removeAccent = myString
End Function
I know that removing the accent changes the meaning of the word, but this is what the user wants so it's what I need to do.
Any help is greatly appreciated!! :)
Thanks!
Joni

Finally got it to work. I had to remove the first 5 characters from the replacement string (ŠŽšžŸ), couldn't find encoding that would handle these, and to be honest, I didn't really need them. The important ones are still there, was probably
just overkill on my part.
UTF7 worked for the rest...
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim FileRdr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("m:\test\charReplace.txt", System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)
Dim ReplaceWrtr As StreamWriter
ReplaceWrtr = System.IO.File.CreateText("M:\test\CharReplaceOut.txt")
Do While FileRdr.Peek() >= 0
Dim currentRec As String = FileRdr.ReadLine
removeAccent(currentRec)
ReplaceWrtr.WriteLine(currentRec)
Loop
ReplaceWrtr.Close()
End Sub
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Function removeAccent(ByRef myString As String)
Dim A As String = "--"
Dim B As String = "--"
Const AccChars As String = "ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýÿ"
Const RegChars As String = "AAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnooooouuuuyy"
For i As Integer = 1 To Len(AccChars)
A = Mid(AccChars, i, 1)
B = Mid(RegChars, i, 1)
myString = Replace(myString, A, B)
Next
removeAccent = myString
End Function
Thanks for all your help! Greatly appreciated :)
-Joni

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Thank you for the screenshot. The text in the message says
Before viewing PDF documents in this browser you must launch Adobe Reader and accept the End User License Agreement then quit and relaunch the browser.
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Hmmm.... I didn't think I used toUpperCase in my code. When all else fails, my advice is to read the API...
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#toUpperCase()]
<quote>
Note: This method is locale sensitive, and may produce unexpected results if used for strings that are intended to be interpreted locale independently. Examples are programming language identifiers, protocol keys, and HTML tags. For instance, "title".toUpperCase() in a Turkish locale returns "T?TLE", where '?' is the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE character. To obtain correct results for locale insensitive strings, use toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH).
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I recently purchased Pages and want to be able to use it with two different users (one personal, one business). Is this possible? If so, how? I have no problem using it with the user I purchased it with, but my business user does not the option for Pages in the launchpad. How can I use Pages across users?
Thank you,
Britta

Pages should be installed in the Applications folder at the top level of your hard drive to be available to all users of that Mac. By default, if you are logged in as an administrator, applications are installed in this folder. I haven't done it, but I understand that if you are not an administrator, applications are installed only in that user's applications folder.
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Thanks Mike

(1) you are asking about Pages for iOS in a forum dedicated to Pages for OSX.
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iwork_for_ios
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 21 décembre 2011 18:32:19
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Adobe claims that writing from right to left should be
possible (
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/printing_04.html)
- but I have no success with my tests.
I'm trying to create a document in urdu (later some other
languages like farsi, japanese....). The language flows from right
to left. I tryed using text (with
p,span,div,table..). I also tried align="right" with all kind of
html tags. Also style="text-align:right"......it all doesn't work.
It just aligns the last word - the rest is "messed up" and just a
bit aligned.
Is it possible? Am I doing something wrong?

here is a small example.
quote:
<cfdocument format="pdf" filename="test.pdf"
overwrite="yes" fontembed="yes">
<div dir="rtl" style="background-color:#6699CC">
جن ججوں پر
چیف جسٹس
افتخار
محمد
چوہدری نے
اعتراض کیا
ان میں
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سربراہ
جسٹس جاوید
اقبال،
جسٹس
عبدالحمید
ڈوگر اور
جسٹس
چوہدری
افتخار
حیسن شامل
ہیں۔ چیف
جسٹس کی طرف
سے پانچ
وکلاء نے
پیروی کی جن
میں سپریم
کورٹ بار کے
صدر منیر
ملک ،حامد
خان،
بیرسٹر
اعتزاض
احسن اور
طارق محمود
شامل تھے۔
 
اٹارنی
جنرل مخدوم
علی خان نے
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سامنے پیش
ہو کر بتایا
کہ وہ
عدالتی
نوٹس پر آئے
ہیں اور اب
جبکہ کونسل
نے اس
معاملے میں
حکومت کو
نوٹس جاری
کر دیا ہے تو
ممکن ہے کہ
حکومت کوئی
نیا وکیل
مقرر کرے۔
 
سپریم
کورٹ کے
باہر منگل
کی صبح ہی سے
سکیورٹی کے
زبردست
انتظامات
کیے گئے تھے
اورسماعت
کے آغاز پر
رینجرز یا
نیم فوجی
دستوں نے
اسلام آباد
میں
پوزیشنیں
سنبھال لی
تھیں۔
 
سماعت کے
لیے جسٹس
افتخار کو
زبردستی
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
سپریم کورٹ
تک لایا
گیا۔
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
جانے سے ان
کے انکار کے
بعد کشمکش
کے دوران
چیف جسٹس کے
کپڑوں کو
بھی کھینچا
گیا۔ جسٹس
چودھری کے
ساتھ کچھ
وکلاء اور
صحافی بھی
سپریم کورٹ
کی عمارت
میں داخل
ہونے میں
کامیاب ہو
گئے ۔
</div>
<div
style="margin-top:30px;background-color:#FF0033;text-align:right">
جن ججوں پر
چیف جسٹس
افتخار
محمد
چوہدری نے
اعتراض کیا
ان میں
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سربراہ
جسٹس جاوید
اقبال،
جسٹس
عبدالحمید
ڈوگر اور
جسٹس
چوہدری
افتخار
حیسن شامل
ہیں۔ چیف
جسٹس کی طرف
سے پانچ
وکلاء نے
پیروی کی جن
میں سپریم
کورٹ بار کے
صدر منیر
ملک ،حامد
خان،
بیرسٹر
اعتزاض
احسن اور
طارق محمود
شامل تھے۔
 
اٹارنی
جنرل مخدوم
علی خان نے
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سامنے پیش
ہو کر بتایا
کہ وہ
عدالتی
نوٹس پر آئے
ہیں اور اب
جبکہ کونسل
نے اس
معاملے میں
حکومت کو
نوٹس جاری
کر دیا ہے تو
ممکن ہے کہ
حکومت کوئی
نیا وکیل
مقرر کرے۔
 
سپریم
کورٹ کے
باہر منگل
کی صبح ہی سے
سکیورٹی کے
زبردست
انتظامات
کیے گئے تھے
اورسماعت
کے آغاز پر
رینجرز یا
نیم فوجی
دستوں نے
اسلام آباد
میں
پوزیشنیں
سنبھال لی
تھیں۔
 
سماعت کے
لیے جسٹس
افتخار کو
زبردستی
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
سپریم کورٹ
تک لایا
گیا۔
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
جانے سے ان
کے انکار کے
بعد کشمکش
کے دوران
چیف جسٹس کے
کپڑوں کو
بھی کھینچا
گیا۔ جسٹس
چودھری کے
ساتھ کچھ
وکلاء اور
صحافی بھی
سپریم کورٹ
کی عمارت
میں داخل
ہونے میں
کامیاب ہو
گئے ۔
</div>

جن ججوں پر
چیف جسٹس
افتخار
محمد
چوہدری نے
اعتراض کیا
ان میں
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سربراہ
جسٹس جاوید
اقبال،
جسٹس
عبدالحمید
ڈوگر اور
جسٹس
چوہدری
افتخار
حیسن شامل
ہیں۔ چیف
جسٹس کی طرف
سے پانچ
وکلاء نے
پیروی کی جن
میں سپریم
کورٹ بار کے
صدر منیر
ملک ،حامد
خان،
بیرسٹر
اعتزاض
احسن اور
طارق محمود
شامل تھے۔
 
اٹارنی
جنرل مخدوم
علی خان نے
سپریم
جوڈیشل
کونسل کے
سامنے پیش
ہو کر بتایا
کہ وہ
عدالتی
نوٹس پر آئے
ہیں اور اب
جبکہ کونسل
نے اس
معاملے میں
حکومت کو
نوٹس جاری
کر دیا ہے تو
ممکن ہے کہ
حکومت کوئی
نیا وکیل
مقرر کرے۔
 
سپریم
کورٹ کے
باہر منگل
کی صبح ہی سے
سکیورٹی کے
زبردست
انتظامات
کیے گئے تھے
اورسماعت
کے آغاز پر
رینجرز یا
نیم فوجی
دستوں نے
اسلام آباد
میں
پوزیشنیں
سنبھال لی
تھیں۔
 
سماعت کے
لیے جسٹس
افتخار کو
زبردستی
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
سپریم کورٹ
تک لایا
گیا۔
سرکاری
گاڑی میں
جانے سے ان
کے انکار کے
بعد کشمکش
کے دوران
چیف جسٹس کے
کپڑوں کو
بھی کھینچا
گیا۔ جسٹس
چودھری کے
ساتھ کچھ
وکلاء اور
صحافی بھی
سپریم کورٹ
کی عمارت
میں داخل
ہونے میں
کامیاب ہو
گئے ۔

</cfdocument>

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i have imported japanese songs with japanese titles before on this computer. the japanese characters and titles were imported along with the songs, but it suddenly stopped working. not only do the titles not import, but the songs are not imported correctly, resulting in choppy songs. please...help!
sony laptop Windows XP

i have imported japanese songs with japanese titles
before on this computer. the japanese characters and
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Right. I saw this thread and I thought I did right, but perhaps not.
The conclusion as I understood it was to give filenames of more than 26 characters with all lowercase ASCII characters. I did this, so I thought I got past this problem. Perhaps not.
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BTW the software is ME version, but the files are not right to left language files. They are, however, German, French Italian and Spanish (and English) User Manuals, so AM's non-ascii suspicion is reasonable.
Waiting till after the weekend.
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Mail loses thread when receiving replies with foreign language

Hi,
I have OSX set to english, but I receive a lot of mails in another language, meaning the replies often come in SV: , RES:, WG:, ANT: instead of RE:. When they come in anything other than RE: they don't get threaded.. what to do? Maybe edit the header? How?
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Hello Melody,
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