OK, so you have a Mac, but you want to use other keyboard types besides US keyboard! Unfortunately, out of the box, you have made a mistake of assigning Mac to use US keyboard only! Now you’re regretting! You’ve a document which needs to be typed in another language such as Chinese! Obviously, on the keyboard, you don’t see how you can do that! You’ve checked everywhere on the Internet for clues of how to type in Chinese on your Mac. Well, you’ve found it here!
What you need to do is go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources, and put a check-mark next to a language that you want to type in. After that, make sure you look at the top right corner where you find the date and time, and you should see an American flag. Clicking on the American flag allows you to change to the other language that you’ve checked in the System Preferences few minutes ago.
Each language other than English has different macros which allow you to type in such specific language. For an example, in Vietnamese using VNI input type, the macros should be from number 1 to 9 on the keyboard. These numbers allow me to put special signs onto the alphabet letters. Vietnamese language in writing looks very similar to French! Here is an example, “Bạn có khỏe không?” means “How are you doing friend?”
Vinh Nguyen
