Comments on: Mac OSX Leopard: How to switch between languages

By: Mihai

Mihai — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:34:16 +0000

Thank you very much, very useful post

By: Estrella Joven

Estrella Joven — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:15:17 +0000

Thank you so very much Rick for your simple but clear explanations. I have solved the language shift problem thanks to your help, for which I am most grateful.

By: Luella Nelson

Luella Nelson — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:28:05 +0000

Ummmmmmm. How come my menu that comes up in System Preferences doesn’t HAVE an “International” icon. The closest I had was “Language & Text.” But its menus once I clicked on that also didn’t match, so I’m guessing something has …. changed?
Is there, perhaps, a more Stone Age way to temporarily switch to Katakana?

By: Andreas Ahha

Andreas Ahha — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:39:30 +0000

This help A LOT. Thanks

By: Yamen Rock

Yamen Rock — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:43 +0000

Thank you..

What worked for me was that I made the input menu cmd+space and the spotlight ctrl+Z

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By: Mei

Mei — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:13:38 +0000

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.

By: Rick Martin

Rick Martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:27 +0000

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.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:18:41 +0000

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!