Using Alternate Keyboards

If you are using an application that supports tagging text for alternate locales or languages, you can use alternate keyboards to easily create documents that contain more than one language.

To select the alternate keyboards you want to use in Windows 95

1. In the Keyboard option in Control Panel, click the Language tab.
2. To add another keyboard, click the Add button.
3. In the Add Language dialog box, select the alternate keyboard that you want to install, and then click OK.

   

4. If you want to change the default keyboard, select the one you want in the Language list, and then click the Set As Default button.
5. If you want to specify a key combination to use to switch between keyboards, click a key combination in the Switch Languages area.

   

When you want to switch keyboards while working in an application such as WordPad that can take advantage of multilingual support, use the key combination you specified or use the Windows 95 taskbar.

To switch to another keyboard using the Windows 95 taskbar

1. Click the keyboard icon on the taskbar.
2. In the menu that appears, click the language you want to use.

The icon for switching keyboard layouts appears at the right end of the taskbar.

If your application uses the NLS API, you might be able to specify that rules for sorting, searching, spelling, and other actions be used for the portion of text typed using that language. Applications that use the NLS API can distinguish between the default locale the user has set for Windows 95 and the language of text in a document. For example, Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows makes language a text property. Just as users can format selected text as bold, italic, or double-spaced, they can format selected text as being in a specific language, as shown in the following illustration.

The Language dialog box in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows