Questions tagged [internationalization]
When software behaves differently to accommodate regional preferences for date, characters, text direction or presents information in multiple languages
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What font metrics are visually represented in Character Viewer grid lines when a character is selected?
When you click a character in Character Viewer (Emoji & Symbols), a large preview is displayed in the detail column and it includes grid lines to show how the character is laid out in some sort of ...
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Why does `say` think my Personal Voice is in Spanish?
After following the answer for How do I access MacOS Sonoma Personal Voice from command line?, when I run say -v \?, my Personal Voice Lilypad shows up as es_MX:
➜ ~ say -v \? | grep Lilypad
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How to edit my locale to order period before any other punctuation?
I want period to be sorted ahead of any other punctuation in the terminal.
I thought I may be able to do this by setting LC_COLLATE to a locale that orders them that way, but I cannot figure out how ...
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Why is my LANG=en_US@rg=fizzzz and what can I do about it?
I have a brand new Mac Mini and I set it up to use English as its system language, but I am physically in Finland and so set up some things like dictation and keyboard layout to use local conventions, ...
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How do you use an app that's "currently not available in your country or region"?
Sometimes (e.g. when travelling) the need may arise to download an app and App Store says the app isn't available in your region, despite the user being physically in a different region.
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How do I make the euro (€) symbol on a MacBook keyboard?
I tried following the answers on Apple's own discussion forums, which gives two ways to make the euro symbol on Mac:
option + 2
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option + function + 2
But both don't work. I find myself ...
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How can I convert a Unicode to a utf-16/8? [closed]
I do not think macOS supports 5 character unicodes, so I have to convert it first, but I don't know how to.
😃 should map to hexadecimal 1F603 for example
Can anyone help me type 5 letter unicodes (...
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Do British English keyboards have ISO layout when bought from Apple US?
I want to buy a MacBook from the Apple US store, but I want a British English keyboard layout, specifically with the ISO layout for the Return/Enter key.
Do British English keyboards have ISO layout ...
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How can I select an International Keyboard after version 18 of the iPadOS?
I was using my iPad keyboard with the international layout, and everything was working properly. After I updated to version 18 of iPadOS, it stoped working and I cannot configure it again.
I want to ...
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How to lookup keybinding translation across input sources
I have an application that binds a menu item to trigger on ⌘]. When I set the US input source, I press ⌘] in order to trigger that item. However, when I switch the input source to QWERTZ (German), the ...
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ipad external keyboard switching between layouts stopped working after update to 18.1
My Ipad pro updated itself to the latest ios version 18.1, which introduced a problem using multiple keyboard layouts. I have an apple external keyboard (en-us layout). Before the update, I could ...
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Is reverting to the macOS 13 keyboard layout switcher still possible on Sequoia?
This answer explains how to revert to the macOS 13 keyboard layout switcher on macOS 14:
Removing language icon from input fields after upgrading to macOS Sonoma
Is this still possible on macOS 15?
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How to change language (Lithuanian) on iPad with magic keyboard?
I have an iPad 11 Air 2024. And I also have magic keyboard. The problem is I cannot write letters such as ą or č or ū and so more.
I can only press on my iPad that shows a letter, hold it for 2s and ...
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View available and insert diacritic characters via an interactive menu on macOS?
Long-pressing a key on iOS brings up a menu of diacritics for that character:
Long-pressing 'u' on iOS:
Long-pressing 'a' on iOS:
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How can a similar menu be made to appear on macOS?
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Change output language of internal commands like "lpstat"?
I've written some AppleScripts that run shell commands like lpstat -a and lpstat -l -p and parse the output with grep and awk. The scripts work correctly in English-language system, but the output is ...
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