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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prevent from specifie software to change language without my permission [closed]
I am using windows 10 pro, there is a program that changing the language without my knowledge, can I prevent from the program to change language without my permission?
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Why is Afrikaans Keyboard randomly installed on Windows 11? [duplicate]
I've done some searching and this seems to be a common problem. It is not included under settings in my list of languages and keyboards, but when I installed another language it magically appeared. I ...
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How to change .esd files to .cab files for Win 10 interface language change?
I want to change the interface language for my PC that has Windows 10 Single Language version. According to a thread here I need to download the language package from uupdump.net and change the .esd ...
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Lenovo m11 physical keyboard doesen't support Icelandic alphabet
I have a Lenovo m11 tablet and when I use physical keyboard it seems that that Lenovo doesn't support Icelandic alphabet. The letters that are missing are þ,æ and ö. On screen keyboard is OK and all ...
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How can toggle between three input methods?
There are three input methods in my ibus framework:
I have set the ctrl + space as toggling key between the three input methods.
I want to toggle between the three input methods when click ctrl+...
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How to make `Alt + Shift + 0` work (to change the input language) on Windows 10?
I assigned Alt+Shift+0 to en-US but nothing happened when I pressed. And this shortcut just disappeared randomly after reboot.
Alt+Shift+9 and Alt+Shift+8 assigned for zh-CN and Japanese are both ...
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Why is openSUSE TW complaining can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct?
I recently noticed that every console applications is griping about my locale settings. I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64.
09:39 ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such ...
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fcitx: Typing in Sanskrit and Hindi, Devanagari script (itrans)
I am trying to type in Devanagari script using fcitx and a Spanish keyboard layout. I have fcitx configured to switch between standard input and Mozc for Japanese. I installed the following packages:
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How do I clear or reset the word suggestion on Windows 10?
My problem: Whenever I type the the word ma in any typing input on Windows 10, it shows me suggestions which has the word mà (as in the picture), this is a Vietnamese word from the last user on my ...
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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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How to get rid of "finalize the string" box when typing in another language?
I'm using Windows 10 to type in English and Japanese and I'm using the Japanese Windows 10 IME.
When I type in Japanese but not inside a textbox (e.g. in File Explorer if I just press a key without ...
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Hide "Input method" widget from taskbar
I recently changed Windows language from English (US) to English (UK).
I decided to keep using the English (US) keyboard. But now, I see this input method in the taskbar constantly. How do I hide it? ...
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fcitx5 Japanese input with anty and mozc.. and Dvorak?
I have been a Dvorak typist for as long as I can remember. I also use Japanese input namely mozc or anthy, but these use QWERTY.
What I would like to know is: is it possible to make the Japanese input ...
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Windows 11: How to remove English as an input language, but keep as display language and preferred language?
This is basically a duplicate of this question, but for Windows 11.
I would like to use English (US) as my display language and it should also be the preferred language for apps.
However, the PC ...
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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 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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Add language to non admin account - Windows 10 with Admin
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?
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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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