[CS-FSLUG] Internationalization Question - USA/South America

[Josiah Ritchie]

Being the geek I am, I use the DVORAK keyboard layout under gnome. While
this isn't exactly the same, it does require me to have multiple keyboard
layouts so my wife can switch to her account and things like that.

Switching between keyboard layouts is pretty trivial. I can select multiple
keyboard layouts with a couple clicks of the mouse. I would expect the KDE
environment to have similarly easy keyboard layout switcher.

JSR/

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, sjm <sjm.mlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/2012 08:24 PM, Don Parris wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My wife bought her son a laptop here, and I set it up with Kubuntu 11.10,
>> before shipping it down to him in Peru.  It just occurred to me that I set
>> it up more for using in the US than in Peru.   I setup the standard US
>> English setup - and setup an alternate keyboard layout to use (US Intl
>> w/dead keys).  He can switch between US English and Spanish as necessary.
>> That part is great.
>>
>> My question, though, is this: if he uses the KDE Locale utility in System
>> Settings to change his country to Peru, will this override the default
>> keyboard layout?  After all, he will be using a US keyboard, but needs all
>> the locale settings for Peru, such as numbers and money.  The laptop only
>> has US English installed as a language.  I did not install
>> Spanish/Castilian as a language - not sure exactly what effect that will
>> have.
>>
>> Does anyone install two or more languages on their computer?
>>
>
> It depends on what you really want.  I have a somewhat hybrid system.  I
> only install English language, but I install the LatAm keyboard in addition
> to the USA keyboard to help me get the extra characters like ñ.
>
> I usually also install the Spanish spell checkers along with the en-US.
>
> I usually don't mess with the locale stuff with that mostly affecting the
> displays of the date, time, thousands separator and such.  I usually want
> the menus and such to also display in English.
>
> Does that help?
>
> sjm
>
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