Language Keyboard

[Guest]

How can I fix the language for every time I connect a USB keyboard in Spanish
and after disconnect go back to default laptoip keyborad in english?????

The language bar is not helping.


Help please.

 

[Jack]

The simple answer is you can't. Keyboards are "dumb" devices and aren't
programmed for one language or another. You physically just change what's on
the keys and then have to tell Windows what keyboard is plugged in. That you
do by using the language bar, but you will have to define English as using
an English keyboard and Spanish a Spanish. Also you should be aware that
some programmes, such as Word, "automatically" detect the language it thinks
you are typing in and will change the language bar accordingly.
By the way, is it really worth the bother? I would just leave the Spanish
keyboard plugged in and work on that. I don't work in Spanish, but do have a
Swiss keyboard, which allows me to work natively in French and German and
there isn't enough difference with an English keyboard to make it worthwhile
physically changing keyboards when I use English (which is most of the
time).

 

[Guest]

Thanks,

It is a real pain, we use so man time the letter ñ (ALT+0241), plus all the
accents, and every time I type on MSN for example is configured in english,
when I want to type somethink like a bracket, it does not appear, because in
SPA keyboard will be (SHIFT 8 or 9) but if configured in english i Have
problems like *(.,<
I hate it.

 

[Jack]

Sorry, my message was a little incomplete. As I said I have a Swiss keyboard
(actually what Microsoft calls a Swiss-French keyboard) which is naturally
laid out to allow typing in French and German (in other words with direct
access to French and German diacriticals such as é and ö). For the English,
I have set up the English language toolbar with a Swiss-French keyboard, so
that "I type what I see on the keyboard". For example the letter z is typed
using the same key whether the language bar has EN or FR selected. (On a
Swiss keyboard the z character is where the y would be on a regular English
keyboard). This should help you, particularly if you can touch-type.
Do the same, in other words Spanish with a Spanish keyboard (which should be
the default setting) and also English with a Spanish keyboard.

 

[Guest]

Yes, but when I disconect the SPA keyboard and I use my laptop keyboard, then
I have the same problem, because the laptop's keyboard has ENG layout.