Whirlwind tour of foreign language computing

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Whirlwind tourof foreign language computing

• Chris Dillon
• Faculty Information Support Officerfor Arts
  Humanities and Laws

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Overview

• Accents
• Other special characters
• Setting the language
• Inputting text in other languages
• Right to left (changing gear)
• Adding languages and keyboards
• Printing

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Overview

• Browsing
• E-mail
• Further information

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Accents in Word

• Hold down Ctrl, press the accent, releasethe
  keys and press the letter e.g.
• Ctrl and ' for an acute accent, e.g. á
• Ctrl and for a grave accent, e.g. à
• Ctrl-Shift and for a circumflex, e.g. â
• Ctrl-Shift and for an Umlaut/diaeresis, e.g. ä

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Other special characters

• In Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook,Insert
  Symbol may be used to insertspecial characters.
• Any keyboard shortcuts are also indicated.
• Do not put special characters in file and folder
  names!

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Setting the language

• If the application does not guess the language
  correctly (see the Status bar), set it by going
  to Tools Language Set Language.
• To run a spell-check
• Click on Tools Spelling and Grammar.
• Ensure that the selected dictionary languageis
  correct.

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Displaying the Language bar

• If the Language bar is not displayed, go
  toStart Settings Control Panel Regional
  Options Input Locales Change Language
• Select Show the Language bar on the desktop.

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Inputting text in other languages

• Click the Input Locale icon.
• The Language Bar has more options
• right-click the Input Locale icon to display it.
• To see your keyboard layout, click on Start
  Programs Office Applications Microsoft Office
  Tools Microsoft Visual Keyboard.

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Farsi Microsoft Visual Keyboard
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Right-to-left scripts (changing gear)

• You need to click an icon on your Word toolbarto
  tell Word to input scripts such as Arabic, Farsi,
  Hebrew and Urdu from right-to-left.
• If you do not already have the icons, go to Tools
  Customise and click the Commands tab.Drag the
  Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right icons from Format
  onto your toolbar.

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Adding languages and keyboards

• Click the small triangle on the left of the
  Language Bar and click Settings.
• Click Add to add languages and keyboardsto the
  list.
• You may also use Remove to get rid ofany
  languages you do not require.

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Trouble printing?

• Try a PostScript printer driver!
• They often have PS in the name.

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WWW word soup?

• If Internet Explorer does not display non-Roman
  documents correctly
• Click View Encoding and choose the appropriate
  language and text direction.
• You may need to click More to find the language
  you need.

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E-mail

• Use Thunderbird, Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, or
  Yahoo Mail etc.
• Eudora and UCL Webmail do not supporte-mail in
  non-Western character sets.

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Further information

• www.ucl.ac.uk/is/languages