how do you type foriegn languages?

Is there anyway you can type foreign languages using us keyboard?
i need to type korean and i know the korean board by memory so i was thinking maybe there's a way to type korean alphabets without purchasing a korean keyboard?

thanks

iMacG5, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 24, 2005 9:04 PM

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Dec 24, 2005 10:07 PM in response to lovekorea

In
System Preferences>International>Input Menu

Check the box for Hangul. The closest to a standard Korean keyboard I think is 2-Set Korean.
While there also check the Show input menu in menu bar box.

The default shortcut to toggle languages is ⌘+[Space], to rotate through different languages or input methods, it's [Option] [Space]the same as the Spotlight default so you will probably want to change either.

Dec 24, 2005 10:19 PM in response to lovekorea

Look at the line across the top of your screen, whatever it's called. Mine has an American flag at the right side. Point the mouse to the flag: a pulldown menu should show the languages currently available. Choose on whichever language you want. I believe mine started with just American English and Chinese, but adding others is easy. At the bottom of the pulldown menu, click on "Open International". (You can also get here through System Preferences/ Personal: International/ Input Menu.)

On my laptop, I can select different ways of typing in a HUGE number of languages. There are five different input methods for Korean; the fourth one, Gongjin Cheong Romaja, works phonetically: if I type "m", I get the Korean character ㅁ (the square that indicates that sound in Korean). In the other systems "m" gets me - or ㅎ (first one the "yi" sound; second one the "h" or sometimes silent final sound, if I remember my Korean phonetics right). One of those five input methods probably matches the one you've memorized. Just select them all, toggle through, and see which one works.

(On choosing which input method: these may take some playing around with. I sometimes type in Chinese, and the "default" phonetic system was horribly nonintuitive and I had to de-select and select various options through submenus.)

Just check off the languages you want added to your input options. Then, when typing, you can click the flag in the top right corner of, uh, whatever that line across the top of the screen is called. Choose the one you want.

To toggle between the current typing language and the previous one, press Command + Space.

Note that my notebook shipped in Asia; perhaps North American ones don't have all the languages available.

Good luck!

Dec 25, 2005 6:47 AM in response to Lost in Asia

Look at the line across the top of your screen,
whatever it's called. > Just check off the languages you want added to your
input options. Then, when typing, you can click the
flag in the top right corner of, uh, whatever that
line across the top of the screen is called. Choose
the one you want.

It's called the Menu bar 🙂
Miriam

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