when I write in German, I copy the text into Firefox and use the German spell checker, then copy my work back.Today I had a massive "duh" moment, when I realised that OSX has built in spell checking.Now, I am writing an email in German, and I would like to change the language of the email to German and have the spelling checked automatically instead of me having to go through each word and telling OSX that it's a German word
I regularly e-mail/chat back and forth with friends in the Netherlands and Germany, so I was wondering if there was a way for me to do a quick system wide language change that could spell-check for me. So, what are those little flags for on my Menu Bar? I have the Dutch, German, and American flags, but I don't notice any changes when I switch between the three.
I got a hand me down ibook from a relative but the default language is in German, I cant understand German. Is it possible to change the language display for commands , instructions and icons to English?
I have added a language under the first tab, Language, only to find that there is no correspondingly supported input option under the fourth tab, Input Sources.
I would now like to remove the entry I added under the first tab, Langauge, but cannot figure out how to do this. I have tried highlighting and pressing delete, dragging it out of the window, etc., but so far nothing works.
I have Snow Leopard, I went to the Dictionary application and changed the preference to "British English (IPA)" but it still checks things like colour as misspelled. is there something I am missing? I went to System Preferences>International and under the Text tap changed spelling to "British English" but still it flags colour as wrong... am I missing something?
I am buying PowerBooks for students here in Brazil. They all have some level of OSX 10.4 but are in English. I need to change the base language to Portuguese. Is there a way to do this without the original install disks?
I may have one or two systems with OSX 10,5, so the same question applies there.
i'm using Mac OS X in English but i'm French and need the spell checker in French. Each time I have to change the language of the whole interface, log out and log in again.
I checked the Dictionnary preferences thinking it might be linked but I can't see any French options.
Do you have any idea how i can modify this setting so that the spell checker in Safari or Firefox or any programs switches to French?
I gave my dad a Mac G4 and he needs to change the language on the system from English to Spanish. Does he need the original CDS for the G4 to reinstall and change language preferences because i currently have installed Panther on the computer10.3.9. .If so where can i get the orignal CDS for the G4
About eight months ago I had to change the hard drive in my ibook. Because I did that change in Germany, some features are in German. Others are in spanish because I lived in Mexico. How do I change the language settings for the programs and operating system. (I hope I am explaining this correctly)?
you would be kind enough to perform the following test and tell me what result you get (it should take five minutes)?
1) login to MyInfo page: [URL] 2) select "Contact Prefs" and set "Preferred Language" to a language different from your country default language 3) Logout (very important) 4) starts iTunes, go in the iTunes Store and connect to view your account (click on your AppleID in the top right corner) 5) select "Edit Payment Information" 6) change nothing, just press Done twice to go back to the iTunes Store 7) login to MyInfo page again:[URL] 8) check if Contact Prefs->Preferred Language was set to your country default 9) come back to this thread and report the result (with your country)
In my case (from Switzerland iTunes Store) my Preferred Language is reset to German each time and it is quite annoying. I've tried to report this to the iTunes Support, but their answer was something like: "we need to test your account." And after having done that:we're happy to tell you that your preferred language is now set to English." Not very useful as you can see.
I want every app to "remember" its current language input. And I don't mean that it should remeber it on osx boot, but after I open it and switch language input.
Im writing a spanish paper and I need all the accents on the paper. I know you can use the codes to add accents, but I was using a different Word program were I could change it to Spanish (Costa Rica)!
I live in NL but my first language is English, sure I'm learning Dutch and use it where I can but at home I prefer not to work so hard at understanding everything. Is it possible to live in one place but pick a language you prefer?
If I moved to a country like China Japan or Russia I'd really be in trouble ...
I can not change the login language eventhow I follow the instruction do do it from System Preferences. When I try the Terminal I can not put my pasword.
I just brought my imac acquired in France to the US and would like to modify the start up language from French to English. I have been able to change the account setting but every time I start up the computer it is in French.
What I have to do in order to change language of system log messages?
When I'm changing the locale setting in System Preferences to Russian, for example, I'm getting logs in English. Is it possible to receive log messages localized in regards to chosen language?
How do i change the system language of my mac. I had to change it into Chinese. Since the Chinese guy is gone, how to change it back into english. I don't understand any of the Chinese writing..
I installed VM Fusion, and then Windows 7 Home Premium. I accidentally clicked some language other than English as the main language, and the install started. Can anyone help me change the language to English within the settings? I can't read any of the options under the start menu.
Is this possible? Firefox can do it with right click -> language or something along those lines, surely Safari can load a different dictionary as well.
I've been trying to find a solution to this for ages, with no success. I'm not even sure it's possible, but I thought I'd continue to try. What I want to do is change the language setting in Pages permanently. I've had answers telling me about the language setting, and International Input menus and so on, but I'm familiar with changing the language setting, as I write a lot of documents in French and in German, but I write more in English, so what I want is to be able to permanently change the setting so that every time I open a new document, the language is set to British English.