Your Multilingual MacUnleash Your Multilingual MacHow to Read/Write Languages Other Than English on your Mac and Other Apple Devices by Tom Gewecke (tom at bluesky dot org)Updated 1/8/2020.One of the best-kept secrets about Apple's devices is the built-in support theycontain for reading and writing languages beyond English, including onesthat use non-Latin scripts and characters. This document explains these capabilities and provides various resources to help users exploit them to the maximum degree possible. Comments and additions from readers are most welcome.In addition, readers may find it useful to consult where I try to post info on current developments in this area.Basic Apple documentation for MacOS can be found in the Help menu of the Finder if you put 'languages' in the Question box. There is also a and a list ofApple sponsors general user-to-user Support Communities in andThe place to ask for new language features and bug fixes isThese comments are based on MacOS 10.15, first issued 10/7/19.
Email me if you would like to see a similar text for an earlier version of MacOS/OS X. For info on OS 9, ask for the page on OS X 10.4, which was the last to support running that.Catalina adds some new language features to what is available in Mojave: Improved keyboard predictions for Cantonese and Japanese, new fonts for Indian languages, 2 new English translation dictionaries (Thai and Vietnamese), and SIRI translation.
Nov 15, 2018 Learn how to use Auto-Correction, predictive text, and text replacement, so you can type with fewer taps. Use Auto-Correction Auto-Correction uses your keyboard dictionary to spellcheck words as you type, automatically correcting misspelled words for you. I converse, by email, with various friends in other countries e.g. Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, France, Portugal etc. And I write in their languages (I speak all of them). Gmail checks my spelling in English but red-lines everything when I write in other languages. It would be nice to have Gmail do spell check etc. In these other languages also.
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