Mac OSX Leopard: How to switch between languages
By rick • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: MacUsing hotkeys, that is. By default the hotkeys for toggling the language input is set as Command+Space. But since Spotlight’s default hotkey is also set as Command+Space, that leaves the language-togglin’ hotkey essentialyl disabled. We need to go into system preferences and change that.
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Nice screencast, Rick. I noticed that the default hot-key for language switching was not a good choice just a few weeks after switching to using a mac about 2 years back, and changed it in the system prefs just as u show.
but, in order not to conflict with ANY app, i ended up going for a 3-key combo (Shift-Command-X). forgot about using “ctrl”, so that was a good idea. i’ll try change it now, to your more efficient 2-key combo!
cheers Steven.
Yeah, it was especially a pain switching between hiragana and katakana for japanese language input. It’s not entirely obvious how to set the hotkeys in the OS either (or at least, I had overlooked it for quite some time).
As for the screencast, it’s made with Snapz. Lovely little program.
Thanks for this!
To the person above: you can type katakana when in hiragana mode by pressing shift. Then everything you type will come out in katakana.
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