Is there a way to set up keyboard layouts preferences to have a **separate layout for each window**? **Use case described step by step:** - I use **two keyboard layouts**: English and non-English one. - I often open Terminal, where I use English layout. - And I often chat in another app using my native language. - I am tired of switching **global keyboard layout** back and forth. - I would like **macOS to remember**, which layout was **last-used in each window**. Especially interesting, if it is possible to do with **native tools** or settings in Monterey rather than 3rd party app. Just like it is possible to do in Linux with a single click in Input methods settings. PS: there is the same question here , but the **answer is outdated**. There is no such setting anymore. At least **in Monterey**.

On a Mac, entering a non-breaking space is very easy: ⌥ + SPACE. On my iPad with iOS 7 installed, I want to enter a non-breaking space. But I find no way. I have tried the mic on the keyboard. It gives me this : Espace insécable :-) I would prefer a solution coming from the keyboard. I would also like a palette offering characters or snippets.

Is it possible to use the special characters window only with the keyboard? i.e., I know in textedit for example you can activat the special characters window with Alt+Cmd+T. But: * How do you bring focus to this window with the keyboard? * How do you perform a search only with the keyboard? * How do you select a symbol from the list using the keyboard?

I am using a Danish keyboard language and Danish keyboard layout. When typing in my browser or other applications on my computer, I can make a backslash. In my case I use the combination shift + option + /. However, when I enter the terminal (either through VSC or directly from my computer), I can't make backslash through the key combination. Nothing happens. I am using bash. I have also tried the Z shell instead, but I can't make backslash there as well. For similar characters I can use their key combinations without any problems in the bash terminal. E.g. shift + option + ( makes an opening curly bracket '{'. Thus, the key combination for backslash works fine in browser and applications, but not in the terminal. Is there a way to add a new key combination for the terminal?

I've been tweaking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a **highlighted yellow rectangle** showing a preview of the accent you're inputting. Here's an screenshot: It turns out is not editable from the terminal preferences. In fact it seems like a system wide setting. But it IS incredibly annoying to guess what it is displaying with a dark background + lighter text color in the terminal app: Is there anyway to change that yellow color to correctly read those symbols no matter what text/background color is?

I'm working with an English external keyboard with a Mac (currently running Sonoma) hat also has a built-in German keyboard which I only use occasionally. I use dictation in both English and German. Now, my problem is that when I switch dictation from English to German, my Mac seems to think the keys jump around on my keyboard :-) and switches the input source to German, too. In fact, I have not found a way to have German dictation without having to switch the keyboard back to English when I want to type something again, which is pretty annoying. I am switching dictation language not in the settings, but in the popup that appears when using the dictation shortcut. (see screenshot below). In case that matters: I have German, English "US international - PC" and "Britsh - PC" input sources installed, for the different keyboards. So, is there a way to switch dictation to German while keeping the keyboard input in English, or is there another workaround I could use to make this preference change more streamlined?

From what I gathered, it seems that the Pinyin simplified input method hardcoded that Shift+4 inputs a Yuan symbol ¥, and I don't see a way to change it to other currency symbols. I would like it to just input $ instead, since it is used as important operators in programming etc. Changing the system language, region and currency designation doesn't work. Is there a known way to do this, or do I have to install a third-party input method?

I am searching the Unicode character ⏻ in Apple's character table. I cannot find it, even though it has been introduced in Unicode 9. I seached the whole unicode tables on the mac. The character looks like the power button on the Mac. When I copy it from the web, it is being replaced by a question mark. Any ideas on how to use this? I thought unicode was accessible on all devices.

I do not think macOS supports 5 character unicodes, so I have to convert it first, but I don't know how to. 😃 should map to hexadecimal 1F603 for example Can anyone help me type 5 letter unicodes (also known as surrogate pairs) ?

**Note**: The question is not about how to change the locale, or what is the locale. The question is about why is there a locale-based error in

in 10.3, but no error in 12.6, even though the locales are identical in both cases. I use iTerm, but this appears in terminal.app as well. --- After running

, reading a manual entry and closing it, I receive the following error

$ man curl                     # The manual opens, I read it, then close
Unknown locale, assuming C
$ man zsh                      # The manual opens, I read it, then close
Unknown locale, assuming C

The manual pages work correctly, and can be browsed, but I have no idea where the error comes from, and it is rather annoying. This is what I obtain when running

$ locale
LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

I'm using Ventura 13.0. The same error does not happen in 12.6 even though the

is identical (see below), so I do not think that it is an issue with

, but rather an issue with

. Note that

says

LANG         Used as a substitute for any unset LC_* variable.   \  
If LANG is unset, it will act as if set to "C".  If any of LANG or  \  
LC_* are set to invalid values, locale acts as if they are all unset.

so there should be no error,

should be automatically set to

. Trying to narrow this down, I ran the same commands on two computers. Computer 1 runs 13.0 outputs the error. This computer has

for MacOS 13.0 from January 9 2021. Computer 2 runs 12.6 and outputs no error. This computer has

version 1.6g from September 19 2005. The output of the

command is completely identical on both computers, in particular they both have

="UTF-8"

. Could it be a

bug?

How do I display both Gregorian and Persian dates in the Calendar app? It only allows "lunar" alt calendars, not Jalali/Persian calendars.

I'm editing a plain text file on my iPhone and need to type a TAB (\t) character. However, I am unable to find it and starting to wonder if it even exists. Anyone able to help me out?

I'm looking for a mouseless/mouse-free solution. And I want to use the whole Character Viewer-- not just certain characters. I can open the Character Viewer with CTRL+CMD+SPACE, but it doesn't have focus, so it seems I have to use my mouse to select anything inside it. How can I give that window keyboard focus without using my mouse? And then how can I copy characters from that window without using my mouse?

After a decade on Linux, I've recently transitioned to an ARM MacBook for its convenience and user experience. On my previous Linux-powered HP, I configured the Caps Lock LED to indicate when the Bulgarian keyboard layout was active. I primarily use English and Bulgarian input languages, so having the Caps Lock LED illuminate for Bulgarian (and remain off for English) would be ideal. I've already set up my Caps Lock key to switch input languages on the Mac. Is there a straightforward method to replicate the LED behavior here? Note: I frequently use applications in full-screen mode, obscuring the top bar, which is why I prefer a visual keyboard indicator to avoid the need to switch out of full-screen to check the current language, thereby reducing typing errors. Thank you in advance!

I want to buy a MacBook from the Apple US store, but I want a British English keyboard layout, specifically with the ISO layout for the Return/Enter key. Do British English keyboards have ISO layout when bought from Apple US?

It's only a small thing I guess, but I'm annoyed to see errors reported in the console for my AppleScripts where the text of the error message contains substitute characters. e.g. Error Number: -43 Error Message: The operation canÕt be completed. In the error message "can’t" has been replaced by "canÕt" I’m not sure if this is a failure of AppleScript, the shell or console.app. I've tried the usual routes of examining console.app (no settings), System Settings (language & regions and keyboard characters seems not to affect console output). This example demonstrates the problem:

set appName to "textTester"
set targetFolder to "Virtuality:Users:minmin:Documents:" -- an non-existent destination forces the error
try
	tell application "System Events"
		set theResult to name of every file of targetFolder
	end tell
on error errMsg number errNum
	set logEntry to (linefeed & errNum & space & errMsg & linefeed) as text
	tell me to writeToLogFile(logEntry, appName) -- error messages generated by AppleScript itself create the problem
	tell me to writeToLogFile("Who would've thought I can't log this text properly?", appName) -- demonstrates that writing directly to the log is fine	
end try

on writeToLogFile(logEntry, appName)
	local handlerName
	set handlerName to "writeToLogFile"
	set theDate to do shell script "date '+_%Y_%m_%d'"
	set theDate1st to do shell script "date '+_%Y_%m'" --real date 1st would be "date '+_%m_1_%Y'"
	
	set libPath to path to library folder from user domain as string
	set theFolderPath to (libPath & "Logs:") as string
	set theFilePath to (theFolderPath & appName & ":") as string
	
	set theFileName to (appName & theDate1st & ".log")
	set theFile to (theFilePath & theFileName)
	
	try
		set okToContinue to false
		tell application "Finder"			
			--make sure the folder is there
			if (not (exists folder theFilePath)) then
				make new folder at theFolderPath with properties {name:appName}
			end if
			
			--make sure the logfile is there - or turn it over
			if (not (exists theFile)) then
				set theFile to make new file at theFilePath with properties {name:theFileName, file type:"TEXT", creator type:"ttxt"}
			end if
			
			--open and write logfile entries
			set theFile to theFile as alias
			tell me
				set writetoTheThing to open for access theFile with write permission
				write (logEntry & return) to writetoTheThing starting at eof
				
				close access (writetoTheThing)
			end tell
			set okToContinue to true
		end tell
		
	on error errMsg number errNum
		log errMsg
	end try
	return okToContinue
	
end writeToLogFile

Is there indeed a fix?

Not sure when this feature popped up.. but in the "Special Characters" menu, ^SPACE (aka my _favorite place_), there are a whole slew of "Mathematical Letters". I can't even find them under the symbols list.. aka • Arrows, • Punctuation... but they're in there.. and they are CHIC! 𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘛 𝘖𝘍 𝗔𝖳𝖮𝗭.𝖥𝖱𝖠𝖬𝖤𝖶𝖮𝖱𝖪 © 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯 𝖠𝖫𝖤𝖷 𝖦𝖱𝖠𝖸 𝗀𝗂𝗍𝗁𝗎𝖻.𝖼𝗈𝗆/𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘆 here is a snapshot of what the above text looks like on my computer... does it look the same to everyone else? here they are in context... How can I **use** these fonts... or just type these characters directly, without having to hunt and peck with the mouse in the "Special" characters palette? EDIT: After some recent futzing with my FontExplorer Pro setup, I realized i NO LONGER HAD these beautiful fonts. After much messing around, I figured out THESE ARE NOT PART OF MAC OS X, unfortunately. They are part of the "XITS Math" font collection. This is listed as the font's "description"... > Arie de Ruiter, who in 1995 was Head of Information Technology Development at Elsevier Science, made a proposal to the STI Pub group, an informal group of publishers consisting of representatives from the American Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). De Ruiter encouraged the members to consider development of a series of Web fonts, which he proposed should be called the Scientific and Technical Information eXchange, or STIX, Fonts. All STI Pub member organizations enthusiastically endorsed this proposal, and the STI Pub group agreed to embark on what has become a twelve-year project. The goal of the project was to identify all alphabetic, symbolic, and other special characters used in any facet of scientific publishing and to create a set of Unicode-based fonts that would be distributed free to every scientist, student, and other interested party worldwide. The fonts would be consistent with the emerging Unicode standard, and would permit universal representation of every character. With the release of the STIX fonts, de Ruiter's vision has been realized. What a weird.. *and fabulous* font. More info can be found here.

I was using my iPad keyboard with the international layout, and everything was working properly. After I updated to version 18 of iPadOS, it stoped working and I cannot configure it again. I want to be able to use accents like “ã” and “á” by just inputing the symbol and then the letter. For example “shift + ~”, followed by “a” yields “ã”. I do not want the style of control / option / cmd + a, as it does not include all possible accents. And I do not want to hold down the “a” key, as it slow down typing. How do I configure this on iPadOS 18 and later?

I have an application that binds a menu item to trigger on ⌘]. When I set the US input source, I press ⌘] in order to trigger that item. However, when I switch the input source to QWERTZ (German), the trigger changes to ⌘Ä automatically by the OS. It seems to translate keystrokes for different input sources. The problem is that I also render the keybindings in a Window in my application, and my application is not aware of this translation. Furthermore, I have other key shortcuts in my application which are not bound to menu items, and I want to make sure those get translated too. Does AppKit expose a way to lookup what a keystroke will be when MacOS translates it, i.e. lookup ⌘Ä from ⌘] when the current layout is QWERTZ? I can't find anything in Apple's docs. I tried converting a character to virtual key code based on the US layout and then mapping it back to a character based on the QWERTZ layout. That doesn't seem to be the same b/c that ends up converting ] to + instead which seems to be based on physical key location, different from how the keybindings are handled. Update: I notice similar behavior for VS Code's menu bar, e.g. in their "Terminal" menu. Switching to German changes some bindings. This does not occur at all in iTerm's menu bar, I suspect b/c their menu items are specified in a different way, xib files with hard-coded key equivalents .

My Ipad pro updated itself to the latest ios version 18.1, which introduced a problem using multiple keyboard layouts. I have an apple external keyboard (en-us layout). Before the update, I could easily switch between different layouts by pressing the `Globe' button. I often need to switch between en-us, swedish and greek, sometimes all three within a few sentences. After the update, there are 'multi-lingual' keyboards, but I can't get this to work. So far, even getting swedish to work failed (even without being able to switch). When in the settings I only have a swedish keyboard (after deleting all the ohters), the en-us layout of the external keyboard is used anyway. Note that the 'software keyboard' on the screen does switch to the swedish layout, but I need to be able to use the external keyboard, using different layouts. I tried google and searched this site, but that didn't help. Any feedback, hits etc. would be greatly appreciated!