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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by rick, 4 Mar 2005.

  1. rick

    rick What's a Dremel?

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    i've already found out that you can use 2 keyboards at once but what i'm wondering is can you use 2 keyboards in 2 languages eg elglish keyboard typing in english and a foreign keyboard in a foreign language at the same time

    sorry if this is in the wrong place but i'm new here
     
    rick, 4 Mar 2005
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  2. Zephyr

    Zephyr Go V-Boy, Go!

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    I doubt it -- the language settings are all one settings, I don't think you could split them off.

    Welcome to Bit, btw :)
     
    Zephyr, 4 Mar 2005
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  3. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    Trying to word process twice as fast ? :D

    You can use two different keyboards but I dont think you can set them up with different languages.
     
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  4. rick

    rick What's a Dremel?

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    thort that might be the case.
    can you swap between languages when the pcs running? i've just tryed down in the sys tray but it wont let me change from english even tho i've got a few more languages installed
    also does anyone know how to make your own language so to speak eg set up the keyboard up so that when you press a key it shows the letter/number i want it to rather than whats printed on the keyboard
     
    rick, 4 Mar 2005
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  5. Diablo668

    Diablo668 What's a Dremel?

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    I believe there is shortcut you can setup for this; some kind of keycombination to switch between keyboard languages/layouts

    you can set up by going to your countrysettings in the config screen (don't know if it's called that in english windows; since i'm using a dutch windows); then languages; details; now you'll see your kayboard layout settings; on the bottom you'll see 2 buttons tastbar and keysettings, hit keysettings; and you can select what key combination to use to switch between keyboardlayouts
     
    Diablo668, 5 Mar 2005
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  6. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    i tried to do what youre wanting to do a bit ago with a qwerty keyboard and a dvorak keyboard, unfortunatlely it cant be done (not that i found anyway)

    the easiest way of doing it is to set up 2 different input languages and a hot-key to swap between them
     
    Mister_Tad, 5 Mar 2005
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  7. LoneArchon

    LoneArchon What's a Dremel?

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    I know you can switch between diffrent languaes i just sret up a pc with eng and Japanese settings but i think it may be possible to setup 1 for each but i never tried.
     
    LoneArchon, 5 Mar 2005
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  8. Jumeira_Johnny

    Jumeira_Johnny 16032 - High plains drifter

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    Here they have a way of switching between Arabic and English on the fly. I often see people typing in Arabic in one IM window, then hit a hot key, and then type in English in another IM window. But I don't know it they have installed XP with Arabic settings, or with the default English settings. This might also be the case only if the language uses a different character set, like Japanese or Arabic.
     
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