Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too)

For a multilingual user, with 3 or 4 everyday-use languages, is it possible to press a keyboard shortcut to change to a pre-set language? For example, Cmd+1 will be English, Cmd+2 will be German, Cmd+3 will be Russian. For my needs, the specific shortcut or specific language is not relevant, but just want to avoid the frustrating sequential press of the regular language switch keyboard shortcut in order to achieve the needed input source. Also, if it's possible to find some solution that is not a keyboard shortcut, but for example a trackpad gesture - it will be fine.

These days I have been stuck in a painstaking case where an input of language is not switched to some languages. I usually use English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese, but Japanese input language input has suddenly been unable to be switched on. This can be fixed on restart, but it is a pain to restart every time so I would rather like to know a way, if any, to just kill and restart the input language. For example, a command such as killall Finder or killall Dock.

I want my iOS to recognise both UK and US spellings as correct, but prioritise one over the other, depending on which is the primary language used (but that's secondary). I came across solutions, notably this one: which could not be reproduced on an iPhone. It would still mark one of the spellings as incorrect. I also came across a solution to [force UK spelling](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/161999/how-can-i-make-sure-my-iphone-uses-uk-spelling-and-keyboard#162004) , on the basis of which I tried to implement what I want, but was unsuccessful. I think it's a matter of what version of English the keyboard is set to. Likewise, I could not find the “English” or “General English” option for keyboard language, which is something I sometime see on the web that reconciles both spellings.

I use two keyboard layouts on my Mac, U.S. and Russian. For some reason, the U.S. layout in indicated by A, not U.S.. Why is it so? How is it possible to have U.S. there instead of A? Screenshot for Ruskes:

I need to write an acute accent over over a Russian letter to indicate stress . Google tells me to switch to QWERTY, hold the letter key and select the accented one. This types a U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, but I'm using Cyrillic letters, not Latin letters and what if my letter isn't in the Latin alphabet, like И?

I would like to type in Maltese (using Maltese letters) from my iPad and iPhone. Unfortunately, the Maltese language is not listed with the default European languages on iOS devices. What can I do?

I have my caps lock key set to toggle input language between English and Russian. There's a slight 'lag' — I have to hold it down for slightly longer than a "normal key". If I press it quickly, as I do when press the keys when typing this message for example, it doesn't toggle the input. This is annoying because I need to constant switch between input methods, and I want it to be instant. I would be happy to disable the traditional function of the caps lock key if it means I can achieve this. I'm using a MacBook Pro 14,1 on Monterrey.

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

In pre-Monterey versions, the text input menu item, if enabled, only showed a representative flag icon. As of macOS Monterey, it shows the flag icon _and_ a textual description. This unnecessarily crowds the menu bar, and issue further compounded by the reduced space available on the MacBook Pro M1 with the notch. Screenshot attached. _Please note, I'm not making any kind of political statement. I'm a linguist specializing in Slavic languages._ I can solve the crowding issue with Bartender - that's fine. Is there a hidden preference to revert to the flag-only display, or some other workaround to omit the long text in the menu bar?

When I select an English word in English text and open the context menu to ask macOS to translate it, the system often tries to translate it from the wrong language, e.g. Norwegian: Is there a way to tell macOS to always translate from English and only from English?

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?

When playing a video game that takes up the whole screen, MacOS will regularly, several times during a session, hide the game window to highlight another program (an arbitrary one that has been used before the game) that has a selected text box which shows the white-on-blue language marker. How can MacOS be stopped from jumping out of full screen programs? If a game has a text box, the white-on-blue language marker will show up there moments before the jump out of the game. Making any action in the in-game text box will stop the jump (until the marker shows up again after some period). These automatic jumps out of the game are more probable if the user has manually done the jump themselves in a session. What feature is this and how can it be disabled?

I just upgraded to iOS 18 on my phone, which brought with it the **very** unwelcome change that most of my keyboard layouts are now ‘bilingual’. I do not ever want any of my keyboard layouts to be bilingual, since it is absolutely terrible at identifying what language you write when – like me – you often write things in multiple languages. Autocorrect has become almost entirely unusable with this change. I have more than 20 keyboard layouts (yes, I realise this is unusual, but I really do type in most of them on a regular basis), and about 15 of them are now ‘bilingual’. Unfortunately, while I can easily delete the non-English language from a bilingual keyboard, it seems you **cannot** remove English to make it a single-language non-English keyboard layout. Instead, I have to now remove 15 layouts, re-add them one at a time, actively choose the single-language option (since bilingual is now the default), then reorder them the way I want them. And remember to choose the single-language option every time I want to add a new layout. This to me is absolutely atrocious UI, so I’ve been trying to find some setting or method to completely disable the bilingual feature so that _all_ keyboards (existing and future) are forced to single-language mode… but so far no dice. Is it possible to disable the bilingual keyboard functionality system-wide in iOS 18?

I have an iPad 11 Air 2024. And I also have magic keyboard. The problem is I cannot write letters such as ą or č or ū and so more. I can only press on my iPad that shows a letter, hold it for 2s and then select normal Lithuanian letter, but when i write with a keyboard it would be amazing to have for example 1 as ą (Lithuanian), 2 as č (Lithuanian) like other normal keyboards have.

I use a third-party input source on Mac. This is the case I encounter: 1. I input some English characters when I want to input Chinese so I have to delete the characters entered just now. Then switch to Chinese and type again. 2. If I know what is the current input language, so I can switch the input language first. 3. The input source can't display current input language but I have press Shift to switch between Chinese and English to see whether the current language is what I want. 4. After some research, I find this repo bitbar . This repo can display some script output at the menubar. So I want some script to get the current input language of the input source. 5. I also find this question , however this question is different from mine. It just find the input source name, not the input language. After Googling for a long time, I didn't find a way to do this. Any one can help me? Thank you so much.

I currently have 2 languages as my input source. If I type in one language with Caps Lock turned on and then switch to another language (using Control-Space) Caps Lock turns off for some reason. I would like it to be on in such case, just like on my Linux machine. Can this be configured in MacOS?

Happening on macOS: 14.4.1 I can't change through the GUI as this is required to be done for several languages and needs to be automated, the different locales will be in a script. ### Everything I tried so far - GUI translated, Terminal is not Here are the commands I ran to change the GUI to French (only first 2 are needed). These are overkill as I was trying to get the terminal to translate:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages -array fr-FR
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale -string fr_FR
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences Country -string FR


sudo defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages -array fr-FR
sudo defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale -string fr_FR
sudo defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences Country -string FR

Then I rebooted the machine, on checking the locale I get en_GB:

defaults read -g AppleLocale
en_GB

However the file the command above supposedly reads shows fr_FR:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale
fr_FR

Language is also shown as fr-FR:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages
{
    "fr-FR"
}

The outputs are the same for .GlobalPreferences in ~/Library. I then tried to export these vars to ~/.zshrc which solved the problem for others:

cat ~/.zshrc

# tried this before to no avail, other answers said to use the uncommented LANG variable
# export LANG='fr_FR' 
export LANG='fr_FR.UTF-8'
export LC_ALL='fr_FR.UTF-8'

locale

locale
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"

Example to show terminal is still in English (the error text should be translated):

ls fged

ls: fged: No such file or directory

System Preferences shows français. Any ideas?

I've written some AppleScripts that run shell commands like lpstat -a and lpstat -l -p and parse the output with grep and awk. The scripts work correctly in English-language system, but the output is different in non-English systems. The only workaround I've found is impractical: I have four strings that are different in English systems and non-English systems, so I've created variables that the script work in English and French. But it's impossible to do this for every language. So is there a way to force the output of lpstat to be in English, no matter what the system language is?

Last Friday I updated my MacBook Pro (16", Nov '23) to macOS Sequoia (15.0). The OS language is English, but since the update, the body of the Force Quit Applications dialog is in Dutch: My region is set to The Netherlands, but even if I change that to United Kingdom, the issue persists. How can I change this behaviour? It looks similar to [this very old issue](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7074197) but I never had Dutch configured in my system, and in that screenshot the dialog title is also translated. I noticed it appears on the log out dialog and log in screen as well: It might be related to the machine being set up by our company's help desk. I have removed that user, but the problem still persists.