Questions tagged [input-languages]
Questions concerning the input language, a setting in an operation system or an individual program that controls the language used to type information via the keyboard.
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Alt+Shift change of language lag since Windows 10
This has been a longstanding problem ever since Windows 10 for me. There is a noticeable delay between pressing the key combination and the actual change of language. I often press the keys, start ...
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Is there a way to unbind left-alt shift from "change input language" to something else, e.g. noop/do nothing
I have 3 input languages (currently) on my laptop and I need all 3 (actually need 5), but hitting the alt-shift key is something I accidently do (a lot!), which changes the keyboard input language and ...
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How to set up Win+Space for rotating or toggling keyboard layouts both in tty𝑛 and Gnome with X.Org?
Let's say we wish to have keyboard layouts de, ru, fr, and es in Gnome with X.Org and at least de and ru (and optionally but not necessarily fr and es) in plain old text-mode consoles. The layout-...
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Get rid of unwanted input languages in Windows 11 [duplicate]
When switching between the input languages I have more options (languages) than I set up.
I don't need them and I cannot find any way to get rid of them.
Here's my keyboard layout selector in the ...
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Steam Deck Japanese Full-Width Input In-Game
My issue is that I cannot input full-width Japanese hiragana or katakana in my Japanese steam game on Steam Deck (stable OS, 3.4.8). When I use the Japanese keyboard for the game currently, the error ...
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change default apple keyboard shortcut of input sources
I'd like to be able to change the default keystrokes to change input sources. I use Dvorak, but there are some apps like Blender, where it's easier to use the standard keyboard layout.
Apple offers ...
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What is the difference between Input Method (IM) and Input Method Editor (IME)?
What I have derived from my research is that there are three tasks that are required for me to write in Japanese using my English keyboard.
User Interface
Conversion of my input from English to ...
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Default keyboard on Mac for all apps except one
I'm on a Mac and have three different keyboards setup. I want all my apps to default to English except for Slack where I use Spanish (LA). My problem is that for some reason, Mac defaults all my apps, ...
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How do I repair a crashing pinyin on linux?
For seemingly no reason whatsoever, my ibus-libpinyin has started crashing again. I'm slowly getting paranoid and worry that someone might be trying to prevent me from learning Chinese, but that's ...
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How to remove a third language (English (USA) 319 Latin) that appears to my keyboard layout in Windows 11?
I have a Dell Inspiron 14 5425 laptop running Windows 11. Recently, I noticed that a third language has been added to my keyboard layout, which is English (USA) 319 Greek-Latin or something like that. ...
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Keyboard input language switched spontaneously
How do I turn off the possibility to switch keyboard language?
It seems like I never get rid of this
(screenshot from a vertical taskbar)
My goal is to run english windows with swedish keyboard.
I am ...
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AWK: "invalid regexp: Invalid collation character" -- how do I make it valid?
I have an awk script that must process millions of records, but I need to remove any containing a multibyte character.
In one environment where I work, the following simplified shell sequence ...
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Windows 10 as admin add language to non admin account
I want to install a language on a non admin account on the system.
While on my admin account I can install Text-to-speech and all other features, on the non-admin account I can only install display ...
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How to remove 'Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn)' from Windows 10 logon screen?
Article How to remove 'Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn)' from fresh Windows Server installation? answers how to remove the qaa-Latn language from the UI once the user has logged on, that is, from the ...
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Windows 11 Home: Language: "right-click for more options" doesn't work
I see the message below, but right-clicking doesn't do anything. What should I do to get this to work (or get access to these options)?
Using Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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Is it possible to change the cursor indicator color depending on the input language?
on windows 10 there is an option to change the cursor indicator color (Win+I -> Ease of Access -> Text Cursor).
I would love (even pay if there was an app for it) to change the text cursor color ...
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Windows Language Input Change on Keyboard not working
Keyboard Language Input change is not working on Windows 10. How can I fix? Even Change with Alt-Shift does not work. I also noticed sometimes notepad opens up in Korean, even though I am using ...
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Disable a keyboard input language temporarily
I have installed a few different languages on my system but I usually use one of them and English, I want to temporarily disable all the other ones so that I can switch between that language and ...
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Why the first keystroke `win + space` for language input method switch is not switching in win10?
Situation
I have 2 language input methods,
one is the normal built-in US keyboard, for language English
one is an 3rd party software input method, for language LANG_A
I allow "Let me use a ...
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How to know which input method I am using on NixOS?
I am using NixOS. This is my config file. As you see, I am using GNOME as the Desktop Environment.
I would like to find out which input method I am using. I can't find it.
In Ubuntu, people can find ...
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Delete a keyboard layout in Windows 11
For some reason, I have an Icelandic keyboard installed (probably due to a misclick in Windows setup):
However, Icelandic is not in the list of my languages:
Why the disparity, and more importantly, ...
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How to install simplified Chinese IME basic input features offline on Windows 11?
I want to add Chinese Pinyin IME on my Windows 11 PC, which requires addition package "Basic Input" to be installed.
However my computer cannot install optional feature, language pack, ...
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How to prevent MS Word from setting language based on System language and applying direct formatting?
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I've tried to find an answer, but I only find unsatisfying results - none of which explicitly solves my Problem, only workarounds.
For a different wording of my question, please scroll to the ...
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Hashtag key not working
On my keyboard, I am not able to type the #, which is typed using shift+3.( I had to copy-paste this one from google)
I don't know what happened, but it stopped working. I think it used to work ...
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Unable to change shortcut for switching input languages
Whilst upgrading a lot of packages at once and being asked for a bunch of config options, I mistakenly set the shortcut for switching input languages to the shift key. Obviously this was a terrible ...
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Install Windows 10 language pack check box not available on a domain laptop
Windows 10 add language pack dialog should look like this:
But for me it looks like this:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-properly-change-system-default-language-windows-10
I want to set the ...
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Windows 11 Switch language shortcut works only after 2 presses
Since windows 11 a weird bug seems to occur, and it only occurs after some time.
So I have 2 languages - EN and HE.
I'm using Alt+Shift and everything works well - it switches between the 2 languages, ...
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disable or move keyboard-switching dialog while leaving functionality intact
I have several keyboard/language layouts on my Windows 10 machine, and I frequently switch between them using Windows key + Shift. My issue is that when I'm sharing my screen in a meeting, every time ...
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Change input language task bar button lost on Windows 10
I was trying to create a script to switch between input languages using the command Set-WinUserLanguageList, as explained here.
That command worked for chaning the input, but know the switch input ...
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How to type the @ sign in a web browser from a Spanish keyboard
I'm trying to setup a new Dell PC for use with Spanish keyboard settings. The ESP keyboard layout doesn't have an @ sign on it, but websites like Outlook.com require me to type that character as part ...
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How to set Win10 Guest account to a default input method?
I have my Guest account enabled on Windows 10 (English version).
I type Chinese using a specific Chinese input lanuage method,
I stalled it and have also set it as the ONLY input method.
But the Guest ...
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Can't remove Windows 10 Keyboard Language [duplicate]
I can't remove a keyboard language and sometimes it changes with no reason, but I can't find any place where it's shown to be removed.
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Windows Japanese IME Toggling Automatically
Currently, I'm typing into SuperUser in the Half-width Alphanumeric / Direct Input mode, and the window with focus is Firefox. However, if I give focus to Notepad where I was last using Hiragana mode, ...
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How to load an m17n table in ibus from home directory?
Recently I've made an attempt to create m17n table for Coptic language. I've posted the table itself on pastebin in case there are any mistakes: https://pastebin.com/pi6ugX5K
I put the file cop-coptic....
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How to pass xkb options to ibus (and use them with m17n engines)?
I am using ibus for input in different languages (mostly I use English and Russian, but also sometimes also Esperanto, Ukrainian, Greek, German, French etc). For English I use the xkb:us::eng engine ...
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Is it possible in <WINDOWS - SINGLE LANGUAGE> version to add other language keyboard layout?
During Windows installation, there are multiple choices:
Windows XYZ
Windows XYZ - N
Windows XYZ - Single Language
they are described here. However, it is not clear:
if we choose English, can we add ...
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How to prevent Microsoft Pinyin keyboard from randomly switching between Chinese and English modes?
I'm currently using the Microsoft Pinyin keyboard for Chinese character input on Windows 10 19042.804. This keyboard has both Chinese and English modes. However, when switching between different ...
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Windows 10 suddenly shows a lot of keyboard languages [duplicate]
I know this was asked many times before, but I couldn't find a recent answer, and it seems that Windows 10 has changed a lot and some answers went out of date in a year only!
Where did these languages ...
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Keyboard: CapsLock for numbers doesn't work
I have a Belgian AZERTY keyboard on my MacBook Pro. Sadly, it appears to be impossible to use Caps Lock to type numbers. I still need to hold Shift for every number I want to type. Is it possible to ...
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Remove Hotkey for Input languages
Everytime I hit Shift+Alt or Shift+Ctrl (Windows Keybinds for switching languages) it changes the input language without even notifying me.
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Windows 10: Input Indicator disappears everytime I reboot
After OS reinstall, I have a tiny, but annoying problem. The keyboard input indicator in the taskbar disappears after every reboot. Also, I cannot change the input method by the appropriate keyboard ...
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keyboard layout on English keyboard for Utsaah hindi font
I want to know where can I get Hindi keyboard map for Utsaah hindi font.
I know typing in Hindi with Kruti dev font using English keyboard.
[url]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/...
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Add word to autocorrect of a single language in Office
I use multiple display languages in Microsoft Office - German as primary, English as secondary.
I would like Office to correct "im" to "I'm" when the editing language of the ...
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How can I use the Linux CLI to change keyboard input method?
I'd like to be able to switch between U.S. ASCII and Russian (in Russia) keyboard input.
I would ideally like to be able to do so from a custom launcher on a panel or Cairo-dock.
This is under Linux ...
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How can I install the Inuktitut language on ubuntu? If no language package for this language exist, how can I create one?
Dear honorable reader:
Summarize the problem:
How can I install the Inuktitut language on ubuntu? If no language package for this language exist, how should I create one?
Provide details and any ...
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Remove English-International from Windows 10
I cannot find a way to remove English International localization from the computer. It is not available in Settings/Language.
Does anyone know how to do it?
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How to navigate to Text Services and Input Languages in Windows 10 1909
After having added a second keyboard layout to Windows, I wanted to turn off its hotkeys to switch between them, like Left Alt+Shift, and Ctrl+Shift. I knew about the Text Services and Input Languages ...
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Office 2019 going crazy when pressing Alt+Shift, to change language from English to Hebrew
When I'm pressing Alt+Shift in Word or Excel to change language from English to Hebrew, the following thing is happening:
Its looks like only the Alt key being registered.
Why this problem happening?
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Windows 10 default language input now switches @ and " due to a key I pressed and I can't get it back
Like the title says: I already tried this solution and it did not work: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4496404/windows-10-manage-the-input-and-display-language#input_language
I was pressing ...
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Remove 'Persian (standard) keyboard (FAS)' keyobard layout in windows 10 [duplicate]
I've added Persian keyboard to my Windows 10. However it added two keyboard layout which one of them is not my option and make troubles for me while switching between languages.
I could not find ...
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