lZr
L&M
But you change Code Page (different font for French and Spanish). You can manage it better with appropriate keyboard layout, if available.
lZr
L&M
Raid, use also Arabic. I do. My Word is Right to Left direction for Hebrew or Arabic. I don't like Hebrew menus, so I use only Enabled Windows
corazon
Established
Canadian English, English (US) [it's installed on there, pretty much as a default], Canadian French and German.
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
i stopped using proper accented characters in any language on a computer, like in hungarian, unless it is really really really necessary.
It's just a mess to switch between them. Not to switch the keyboard, but to sitch in my brain.
It's just a mess to switch between them. Not to switch the keyboard, but to sitch in my brain.
Papercut
Well-known
English + Chinese (simplified and traditional character sets and fonts), Japanese and Korean -- all for research (though I can't remember actually having to use the Korean, which is fortunate since I can't read, write or speak it!).
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NickTrop
Veteran
Of course, (and I kid you not if you're not familiar) - Incubus, starring pre-Star Trek William Shatner, lensed by Conrad Hall, made by the crew (music, direction, etc.) of The Outer Limits (shortly after it was canceled) is a "must see"...
... as it's the only movie ever made whose dialog is entirely in Esperanto.
The film - which I think is absolutely brilliant, personally, has an interesting history. Made in 1965, it was thought to be "lost" until a print surfaced in France I think in the 90's. It also has a "curse" around it.
Here's a Salon article on it:
Curse of the "Incubus"
http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2000/05/03/incubus/index.html
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thawkins
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Two languages: English and Texan - "Howdy yall"
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
English, German, Farsi and Russian. English is there because I use a multilingual copy of XP and it came with the system. German is my native language. I regularly have to communicate or work with text in several other languages. (I guess I'm something of an odd man out here, because I don't speak all the languages that I am working with.) Instead of installing keyboard layouts for each of them, I've installed just one language for the Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabet and written a custom keyboard layout for each that will give me all sorts of extra characters. The German one includes diacritics for most European languages as well as scientific transcription, so I can ţÿþę łıḳə ṭħĭś without switching my keyboard layout. (This is so useful that I've made a similar one for French AZERTY for some friends.) The Farsi one is just phonetic and also allows me to type Arabic, and the Russian one gives me extra characters for Old Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Tajik and Kazakh (Ѣ, Ѳ, ґ, ў, қ, ӣ, ә, ү, ұ, etc.)
Olsen
Well-known
Neither do I understand what 'installed' is supposed to mean in this connection. I do regularly communicate in Norwegian (my mother tongue)/Danish & Swedish, English and German. Here in Norway you learn two foreign additional languages - before university studies. I had German and English. Today you can even choose Mandarin, Russian etc. etc.
How is this with you Americans, do you learn any foreign languages at school (through high school) at all?
How is this with you Americans, do you learn any foreign languages at school (through high school) at all?
HuubL
hunter-gatherer
I'm Dutch, so English only 
Henryah
Member
I have English Norwegian and Portuges,it is a modern world
Abbazz
6x9 and be there!
I use mainly English, French and Indonesian/Malay on the computer. I type on a standard English keyboard but I am using Windows "United States-International" keyboard layout ("Regional and Language Options"). This way, I am able to type easily all the accents and funny letters in French, without having to switch to a French keyboard. For Windows users having to type in English and also in French, German or other accented languages based on Latin characters, this is a much recommended setting.
Cheers!
Abbazz
Cheers!
Abbazz
lZr
L&M
For Windows system, Installed, means the languages can be switched with special keyboard press (usually Alt+1 or 2 keys). Moreover if you open the Control Panel you see active Regional and Language Options. There is a option to install the language and use a selector on the lower task bar for language switching
My system is totaly Left to Right and Right to Left symmetric, so I can write LTR and RTL
thawkins
Well-known
Only one; TEXAN!! Howdy yall!
Pete H
Member
Keyboards installed: US English (I work for a US company), UK English (I'm a Brit and got used to it), Norwegian (Bokmål) (I live in Oslo).
If anyone can explain the Norwegian use of prepositions, I will be eternally grateful! :bang:
If anyone can explain the Norwegian use of prepositions, I will be eternally grateful! :bang:
kmerenkov
Established
English because I use it most of the time in chats, Russian becaues it's my mother tongue. Japanese because I need it sometimes, chinese because I studied it (but quit fast, thinking about resuming). I also can type accents w/o switching keyboard layouts, needed sometimes when you had to type some french or german word.
