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Obtaining a list of words from a GNU aspell dictionary

I downloaded the aspell package for Bengali language dictionary support. From the tarball, I was able to isolate the bn.wl file, which is simply a list of about 100,000 words, one on each line. The ...
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Linux and Umlaut through fn key on US Keyboard

for me as a programmer its very convenient to use a US keyboard layout. In fact I got so used to it that its hard for me to go back to the localized layout of my native language German. What I miss ...
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Resolving Chinese font differences on Mac and Windows versions of Office

My wife's office uses a certain standard Chinese font (Fang Zheng Kai Ti) for their documents, which is available with Office on Windows but not Mac (which has other similar-looking fonts, but nothing ...
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How do I type the ligature œ into the international keyboard

I'm using the international keyboard to type in diacritics and accents (for French). I can type just about everything except the ligature œ. Does anyone know how to do this in the international ...
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Unable to type brackets [] in a 16bit application running in Win7 with in Spanish keyboard

I need to run a 16bits application (rhide.exe) in Windows 7, with a Spanish keyboard, but the default keyboard is the English version. I changed the “autoexec.nt” (kb16 sp ...) and “config.nt” ...
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Dealing with differences in “official” fonts in Windows

I work in a multinational office. Some people have CHN copies of Windows 7/XP and Office 2007/2010 installed, others have various ENG variants. All are legit. I was surprised to discover recently ...
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TextPad problem with filenames containing non-English symbols

I'm using TextPad 5.4.2 as a main ASCII text editor tool on my Windows 7 system. I'm happy with all its features but quite unhappy with the following bug. I have an external HDD with NTFS which have ...
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Configuring French Macbook Pro (7.1) keyboard with Debian 6

I have a Macbook Pro 7.1 with a French keyboard. I'm trying to install a Debian 6 guest OS using VirtualBox on it and I can't configure the keyboard as it is in OS X. I tried dpkg-reconfigure ...
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Enable channel 13 for American Intel WiFi Link 4695AGN

A friend of mine recently moved from the States. Problem is, he can't connect to our WiFi network. Ours is on channel 13 since Channels 1, 6 and 11 (the only other separate channels available) are ...
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Do TVs from the UK work in the US [closed]

I'm thinking about getting a TV while I live in the UK but I'm going to be moving back to the US eventually. If I bring the TV back over will it work?
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Do I need the meta-key for vim?

I'm looking in to learning emacs or vim. I started out with emacs but found the need for a meta key to be a hassle, especially since I have a non-english keyboard layout on my macbook. So far I ...
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weird problem with toshibA A665… keyboArd is crAzy.. help

I just got a brand new Toshiba Satellite A665 There are two weird problems My left-shift key types the letter A And my letter A key is always in caps. I can actually type an A by hitting capslock ...
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How to disable inputing characters like ãâà by default in OS X? I just want to simply type ~^`

Is there a solution for OS X 10.6? I don't find it in the system preferences.
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Does Visual Studio 2010 exist in different languages?

Does Visual Studio 2010 exist in other languages than English? I mean, is there a French, German, Chinese versions of Visual Studio 2010, like there are international versions of Windows or Microsoft ...
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Game server - How can I block connections from other countries?

I have a small server at home that I plan on putting a few game servers on, but I want to make sure only people from my country can join it. Is it possible to filter connection attempts to my server ...
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Is there a US International keyboard layout on Linux that mimics Windows' behavior?

I am used to using US International as my keyboard layout. However, the implementation appears to differ greatly between Windows and Linux (Gnome, in my case – may well be a GTK issue since GTK ...
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To get International Dvorak for Snow Leopard

How can you have International Dvorak for Snow Leopard? I need A with dots dot O with dots for Dvorak. OS X has four types of Dvoraks, but none of them is Dvorak International like in Debian and ...
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How to get more than 3 international clocks in Windows 7?

Is there a way to get more than 3 international clocks in Windows 7? This How To Geek article describes how to add two extra international clocks but I'd like more.
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Is it possible to make Notepad++ support Tamil language functionality?

Notepad++ (from v2.3) supports the multilanguage functionality by means of a translated XML file (from english.xml). Normally you don't need it if you install Notepad++ by its installer. You may need ...
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Windows apps keep switching to accented text

Somehow I keep hitting a shortcut key (or something similar) that enables the input of accented text. Whenever this accented text mode is enabled, pressing ' doesn't respond immediately; instead, the ...
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I'm looking for a hebrew font

I'm looking for a (preferably free) hebrew font that the letter ח ("Chet"/"Ches") is shaped like the upper half of the letter "s" and is not a script font. The letter ל (lamed) should be shaped like a ...
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How do I get country specific results when using iGoogle?

Since I signed up for iGoogle, my search results have become less useful. Before, results would be weighted towards my locale - UK - so that I'd get shopping results in pounds, and .co.uk sites first. ...
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International Dvorak keyboard doesn't trigger hot-keys

I'm using the Engilsh-Dvorak keyboard-layout; My second keyboard language is Hebrew, which has nothing to do with Dvorak but the hot keys (e.g if I'm writing a document in Hebrew and want to make some ...
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In Mac OS X, what is the difference between “Standard” and “English” order for sorted lists?

In the Language & Text preference pane (or International for versions older than Snow Leopard) what is the difference between "Standard" and "English" order for sorted lists? I found this article ...
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Problems in “Save as PDF” plugin with Arabic numbers

I use the "Save as PDF" plugin with Word 2007 to generate a PDF document from a DOCX document. It works great except that the Arabic numbers in the Word file have been converted to English numbers in ...
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Windows 7 + lang pack versus national version?

What is difference between english Windows 7 localized with language pack and "generic" national edition? SKU on the box, I know, but will be there any differences for average end-user? In US Win7 ...