Comments on: How To Add Other Languages to Your Windows Keyboard

By: David

David — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:57:37 +0000

Check out the AllChars app. It allows you to type many of the characters needed for languages (other than English) that use the Latin alphabet, simply by using easy to remember key sequences. So: Ã§ Ã¶ ÃŸ Â£ Ã± Ã» were no problem for me to type – and I didn’t have to switch keyboard layout. Very useful when putting together a multilingual document – which I often find myself doing in South Africa.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:53:22 +0000

For those who need to write something in another language only once or maybe get access to familiar keyboard layout when traveling abroad there are a couple of websites.

- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/lifetype-multilingual-keyboard/
- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/magictyper-type-hebrew-arabic-russian-greek-keyboard/
- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/gate2home-online-keyboard-language/

By: pjcalafi

pjcalafi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:07:42 +0000

Thank you Tina. I’ve searched online and been unlucky so far.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:54:32 +0000

On second thought…I would hope that all other operating systems recognize and can display foreign language characters. And that’s all this post is about. So these characters shouldn’t be a problem. If they were, then for once Windows would win the battle of being useful and making sense.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:52:02 +0000

Well, in this case I would not call it junk because it’s actually useful. Too bad for the other operating systems.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:50:21 +0000

For XP there isn’t. For Vista I’m pretty sure it’s the same. Sorry!

Maybe someone out there has experience with that. Is there a way to get sort of a language pack / upgrade?

By: pjcalafi

pjcalafi — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:06:57 +0000

Nice article. Now on a related topic, I have Vista Home Basic. It came pre-installed from the manufacturer in English. Is there a way to change its language to Spanish or French?

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:16:34 +0000

ASCII officially only has 127 characters, so those 128-256 are just made up Windows-specific junk. This means if you use them and you’re talking to a Mac or Linux user, we’re probably going to see those ? characters that show when a non-existent character is sent.

By: LIFS

LIFS — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:19:54 +0000

nice way……….
I had trouble typing hindi through my keypad…..