Typing, Email and Word Processing in Foreign Languages
Setting up Foreign Language Keyboards or IMEs on Your Computer
- Windows 7
- Windows XP
- Set up Keyboards and/or Input Device to Type in Another Language (View Quick Guide online)
- Install
and use East Asian Languages - alternative, detailed set of instructions on how to activate Chinese,
Japanese and Korean under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista
- Mac OS X 10.6
- Turn on input languages - follow these instructions to activate keyboard layouts for different languages on Mac OS 10.6
Shortcut Keys and Keyboard Layouts
- Windows
- United States-International Keyboard Layout (activating and using the US International keyboard may be the easiest way to type accented characters in Windows, e.g., for French, German, Spanish, etc.)
- Shortcut keys for typing accented characters using the default U.S. keyboard layout in Windows (if you do not want to or are unable to activate the U.S. International layout)
- Diagrams showing the layouts for the Arabic, Bulgarian, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Russian, Spanish, and Urdu keyboards in Windows (Downloadable PDF)
- View any of the Windows keyboard layouts online
- Use the On-Screen Keyboard to see the layout of the keyboard that is currently active in Windows
- Mac
Email in Non-Western Languages
- Sending and Receiving Non-Western Language E-Mail (View Quick Guide online)
- Sending and Receiving Emails in Foreign Languages via
Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows
XP (Downloadable PDF)
- Sending and Receiving Emails in Foreign Languages via
Mozilla Thunderbird on Mac
OS X (Downloadable PDF)
Word Processing in Non-Western Languages
Creating Non-English Webpages
Last update: 7/28/10