Questions tagged [language]
questions regarding language-related computer issues, including the setting or changing of languages
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Windows adding additional keyboard languages by itself
I have this really annoying problem with Win7 adding random keyboard language layouts...
I am using Swedish and Japanese since I live in japan and i only use these two (As I can write all the english ...
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How to disable Ctrl+Shift+U in Ubuntu 20.04?
ctrl+shift+u is a change case, to set lowercase, but it conflicts with annother command, that produces a underlined ''u'', which produces an emoji when combined with a number.
It annoyed me so much ...
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My font in Word always returns to italic after I change it to regular
I write papers in Word in 2 languages in the same files. My other language except for English is right-to-left language. When I write in my language, word changes my font in English only to italic. ...
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How can I remove a keyboard layout that isn't listed in the control panel?
Here's an interesting oddity:
My work computer comes with a corporate disk image preloaded, and it is preconfigured with the German "QWERTZ" keyboard layout.
Using the control panel, I added my ...
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Thunderbird keyboard shortcut to switch dictionary language
As a non-American I write emails in multiple languages. In the newest releases of Thunderbird the add-on Dictionary Switcher is no longer supported, so I would like to just add a shortcut for cycling ...
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Some specific languages keep disappearing from the language toolbar in windows 10
I have been using language toolbar and 4 different keyboard languages (English, Spanish, Russian and Latvian) without any issues for about half a year in Windows 10.
This morning I suddenly realized ...
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Different language keeps appearing on language bar?
I'm using a Japanese layout keyboard and using English version of Windows 7. I set my input method to Japanese (Japan) - Japanese , so that I can have all keys working properly.
I got this weird ...
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I'm locked out of my MacBook pro because my password uses a russian keyboard but I can't change to it from the English keyboard
Is there a way to change the language of the keyboard in Mac OS X 10.9.5, or even system language, while not logged into an account (as I restarted)?
This is my toolbar at the moment:
There is only ...
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Default language for Word documents
I am using Word on two different PC with one of them running in Hungarian, and the other runs in English. What I have noticed, is that a Word file that is created in the Hungarian Word, will always ...
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Use only one button to switch between keyboard languages
I am trying to find a way to assign just one keyboard button to switch between different keyboard languages. I cannot find a third-party software to help me resolve this issue. I am working a lot with ...
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Google dialogflow Locale and language
I am using dialogflow to create a Chatbot in ZH-ch. When I tried to integrate it via google assistant, I got the following error message:
Request contains an invalid argument. Locale zh-CN was ...
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How to start app/program with defined input language
I have a german keyboard layout and german as input language. However, some programs do not accept a comma as decimal for number input. A dot is required for input.
For a way better workflow, I want ...
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I try to type alt codes like sigma Σ and infinite ∞ on Windows but I keep getting � (unrecognized character). How can I fix this?
I get exactly � at almost every alt code I type. "é" and most other latin alphabet characters seem fine, but the majority of punctuation, symbols, and some letters don't show up.
I'm on Windows 10. ...
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Is there a font that displays Chinese characters as their Latin equivalents?
Chinese, Japanese, and other languages with non-Latin characters (as used in English) now have wide support thanks to Unicode providing the necessary glyphs. However for people who don't speak these ...
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Change default mail language for thunderbird depending on account
When answering mails in Thunderbird, usually a "Re:" or something similar gets added in the subject, and a "wrote on " in the mail itself, citing the received mail. Is there a way to change that to ...
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Parsing the output of Windows commands on non-English versions
For a project I'm doing I need to run some Windows commands and then parse their outputs. In particular, the commands I'm interested in are:
netstat
netsh
ipconfig
arp
I've built my little system ...
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Windows 10 language bar hot keys get forgotten after logout
If you go to Control Panel\Clock, Language, and Region\Language\Advanced settingsand click on Change language bar hot keys then you can define hot keys for input languages. My problem is it works ...
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How to set language for error message in IE F12 developer tools?
I use IE in Czech. Sometimes (like today) the Czech error message doesn't allow to reconstruct the Google-friendly English version, so I would prefer to use the developer tools in English. I didn't ...
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Windows 10 Calculator showing in pseudo-local
I'm pretty new to windows 10, but my calculator app is showing in pseuedo-locale
How to I turn this off and have it display in normal English ?
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Change language in Windows 7. Nothing on the screen except cursor
I ended up buying a computer that came preloaded with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit French version. Since it's not an Enterprise/Ultimate edition - I don't have the option to install/uninstall languages for it....
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Non-Latin numbered lists (MS Word)
(Sorry if duplicate)
When creating a numbered list in MS Word 2013, I can choose the list style, e.g.,
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
or
a) First item
b) Second item
c) Third item
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Installing new Text-To-Speech languages on Windows 7 32bit Home Premium
I've been hoping to install a Spanish Text-To-Speech voice for use with a vb.Net program I'm creating.
I've downloaded MSSpeech_TTS_es-ES_Helenafrom http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details....
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Disable input language switching shortcut
I'm not sure what the issue is on my Windows computer but I can't seem to determine what triggers the input language switcher that I seem to accidentally press too often.
I have three inputs set up:
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What is the recommended way to make a new keyboard mapping for a new language on Linux?
I have to type extensively in Sgaw Karen. As far as I have discovered, ready made keyboard layouts for this language exist only on Windows. So, my question is, what is the preferred approach one ...
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Microsoft Office Localization
I have installed a language pack for Microsoft Office 2010 in order to be able to spell check another language. Now the Event Log messages for Microsoft Office are appearing in that language.
The ...
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Windows 10: How do I install an input method without installing the associated language pack?
I'm running Windows 10 Pro, version 1803.
It used to be that when I install a new input method, I would be given the choice whether to install the associated language pack along with the input method....
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Disable per-application input language in Windows 7
My problem is following: every time I switch between applications the used keyboard layout is changed.
I want to disable such behavior but cannot find such option.
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Can't stop Microsoft.com from detecting my location
I want to record a screen recording for an English customer. So I don't want any windows or websites to be shown in my local non-English language.
What a frustrating process!
Things I have done:
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Microsoft Word keeps reverting the proofing language of non-English quotations to English
I am writing a commentary on a French publication. My own text is English, but I have a lot of quotations in French, and occasional quotations from German, Greek, and Latin texts. I carefully "...
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LXTerminal does not display Urdu characters correctly
I'm Chinese and I don't read Urdu, but I want to communicate better with Indians.
In LXTerminal, the output looks like this, with some characters rendered as wingdings:
In QTerminal the output seems ...
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What settings should I define in Windows 10? Location: France, Keyboard: Norwegian, Language: English
My question is relatively simple.
The ultimate goal of it is to avoid this unwanted behavior:
unwanted keyboards
if you check on the Internet or here on superuser.com you'll find long topics with ...
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Outlook search bar options "from" change language automatically and stop working
Everytime when searching for an email at the search bar using the option "from" (e.g. typing from:[email]), Outlook change the language of the word "from" to "de" (...
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Change of Windows display language fails for Windows 10 Home
I get error messages when installing a language pack on Windows 10 in order to change the Windows display language.
When I go through settings -> Language -> Options I get the message 'Connect ...
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New Tab screen on Edge changed to Chinese and does not change back to English
For some mysterious reason (I do not know how), the New Tab screen on Edge changed to Chinese and does not change back to English, or any language, despite my attempts to do so (by using the options ...
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How to change to wlan report output language?
TL;DR: is it possible to change the language of the wlanreport without changing the display language of the system?
My default language is Czech, I use also French and Polish keyboard layouts and I ...
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Force netstat to always return results in English language, irrespective of system language?
Is there a way to call netstat commands (e.g. netstat -an) but return the results in English irrespective of the system language?
Background: the reason I wish to find a way is because some software ...
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Deleted languages & inputs are still available in the taskbar?
I created this script in the PowerShell to completely renew Windows 10 Languages and Inputs:
$LanguageList = New-WinUserLanguageList -Language en-us
$LanguageList.Add("sk")
ForEach ($...
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Azerty keyboard switches back to qwerty on startup. HP 850
On my HP laptop I have the AZERTY layout, however the keyboard is QWERTY when typing. I changed it to AZERTY through control panel and it didn't do anything. After restarting the laptop it switched to ...
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Visual Studio Code: Changing language syntax highlighting within a document with multiple languages
I have files with snippets in multiple different languages. I would like to change the syntax highlighting for a different blocks of code with, for example, comment blocks. Example would be:
SQL ...
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Windows 10 locale stuck in German
I have a Thinkpad that runs Windows 10 Pro including the latest software updates - but it's in German. I have tried many times to change the system language to US English, but there is always some ...
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in microsoft excel how to define a default language for columns
Hi I'm working on a dictionary and need to have English words in one column and Persian translation in another. but it takes time changing language every time I want to type the English and Persian ...
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Mixed-language dictionaries for Thunderbird?
I am frequently writing Emails, where German and English parts are mixed within a single email. Is it possible to get Spell-Checking that doesn't require manually switching languages all the time?
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Firefox en_GB HTML5 date fields are in MM/DD/YYYY
On macOS Catalina, I've installed en_GB Firefox, my language preferences are 'Choose languages for menus messages etc' is "English (United Kingdom)", in "language for displayed pages" I've remove ...
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On a Thai Windows 10 install, do Thai filenames work in the command prompt?
The Windows command prompt uses fixed width fonts.
This is fine for most western languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
But for some languages fixed width fonts are not really possible ...
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Set the Windows 10 OSK (on-screen keyboard) to different language than physical keyboard?
I use the Windows 10 on-screen keyboard to type Russian characters but I also need to use my physical English keyboard. Switching the input method back and forth is time consuming and inefficient. ...
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Change CMD language permanently to english Windows10 (specifically, ping output)
Since a long time its been bugging me that the language used for the outputs of my commands is German(my native language) and not English.
Thing I tried changing to English:
The "- german" only ...
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Google Chrome won't let me change the language at all
I just got a laptop and it had chrome installed with the Hebrew language, so I tried changing the language to English in Settings -> Advanced-> language-> add language and when I press the language ...
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Force the Windows input method in the language bar to stay at Microsoft IME with Korean language installed
I'm sorry if the title doesn't describe my problem properly, but this is what I want to do:
My computer has Windows 7 Ultimate English version, with Korean language installed
I want my input ...
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Telegram message search issue with East Asian languages
It is a known issue that Telegram message search does not work correctly with East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) or any language that does not use spaces to separate words (see here, ...
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where are the windows gvim language default settings?
I am running gvim 8.1 on w7 x64 US english.
My windows system regional setting is Germany though as I am located in Germany and I want German currency and date settings.
When I run vim and type :lang ...
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