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It works best, for instance, if I didn't have French here at all and I was just going between these two. You'll also have the ability, under Input Sources, when you have a non-Latin keyboard added which I do here since I have Chinese, I get this checkbox here where I can use the Caps Lock key and it will switch between the non-Latin and the last Latin one I used. When I get to the one I want I release the Control key and I get to that keyboard. I can click on one to select it or I can just basically continue to hold down the the Control key and hit the spacebar to go to the one I want. I'll do Control Space and you can see I get a list here. So I can see the keyboards here at the top. You can see here that you can use Control, not command but Control, and Space to switch. So if you go to System Preferences and back to Keyboard but this time to Shortcuts one of the items here on the left is Input Sources. There are some keyboard shortcuts for this.
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But if you're switching between languages a lot, like say you're working on editing a Chinese document although you primarily work on your Mac in English you may want to do it a little quicker. That may be fine if you have to do it every once in awhile.
Now switching between these keyboards may seem a little cumbersome.
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If I knew how to write in Chinese I would probably find this very useful. You can see here there are a whole bunch of different options that I have with this keyboard selected as well. So this allows for the many more characters that there are in Chinese versus the number of keys that are on the keyboard. I get to type a number to pick which one I want. The way a keyboard like this works is if I switch to it and I type a key, like I'll type the letter q, I get some choices there. As a matter of fact if I select it here it's going to give me a bunch of options. I'll pick one here at the top and I'll add that it's going to be very different. So, for instance, if I were to add the Chinese Simplified keyboard here. Now it may not make as much sense to go and have a US and French keyboard there since the letters are Latin for both it's probably best to type with the letters that are actually on the keys.īut some keyboards are vastly different. But if I were to switch over to the French keyboard and I were to type those same keys you can see I get the French keyboard equivalent. Now with the US keyboard turned on I can type and I get the standard characters. So let's close System Preferences here and bring up a TextEdit document and work in that. Once I add it I'll notice I get a menu item here that will allow me to easily switch between the keyboards. So it's a good example for us to use as we should see a difference right away.
Now notice here it gives me the layout and you can see it's not q, w, as the first two characters here. So, for instance, let's as an example choose a French keyboard and I'll choose the standard French one and I'll add it.
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I can hit the Plus button and choose another keyboard. For instance, if I go to System Preferences and then Keyboard I can go to Input Sources here and you can see I have it setup for just a US keyboard. But that doesn't mean I can't set it up to be a standard keyboard from another country. Once you setup your Mac to use multiple keyboard layouts you can easily switch between them with some keyboard shortcuts. For instance you can use a French keyboard layout instead of an English one. So if you have to work with different languages you can switch the layout that your keyboard is using. Join us and get exclusive content at /patreon. MacMost is brought to you by a community of supporters. Let me show you how you can switch the layout on your keyboard to easily type in different languages.
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