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[jizza]

Everyone knows that you can easily switch between hangul and ABC input on Windows by simply hitting the ALT button.

I recently bought a mac and now I'm finding the input controls to be poorly-designed and not nearly as easy.

Is there a button I can press, similar to ALT, to switch between English and hangul input easily?

Thanks

edit:: this is on hangul input. then switching between English and hangul (WITHIN hangul input)

[crescent]

There is a tech forum for this.

Mac OSX has the shortcut disabled. If you want to enable it...

1. Click �System Preferences�.
2. Click �Keyboard�.
3. On the top of the �Keyboard� window, choose �Keyboard Shortcuts�.
4. Then look at the left side of the window and choose �Keyboard & Text Input�
5. Click �Select the previous input source� AND "Select next input source".

Now if you hold the �Command + Space" keys, the language will be changed to the next language.
To change back, "Shift+Command+Space".

If these shortcuts are not comfortable, then go back and disable them.
Then, hit the "+" button at the bottom of the shortcut window to create your own.

[jizza]

Thank you..

Yep I know about command space.

Right now I'm using that to switch languages. But I have 3 input languages: English, Korean, Chinese.

On windows I set it up so that I switched between Korean and Chinese, and while I was on Korean i would hit ALT to switch between English and Hangul.

IS there an equivalent for the Mac hangul input that lets me switch to English (within Hangul input) with one button? (like how on Windows you hit ALT)

Thanks..


edit: holding down the alt/option key switches to english within hangul input. i wonder how to change that to an on/off button so that i don't have to hold it down.

[hojucandy]

Yes - not one button but two - simple still.

Hold down the command key and hit space - tis will cycle you through the keyboards you have chosen in the keyboard control panel.

[jizza]

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[jizza]

I know that..

It's just that I have several language inputs installed.

Also, on Windows Hangul input, you switch between hangul and english by hitting the ALT button.

It's a lot better than the MAC system. I don't want to cycle through 4 languages everytime I want to switch.

right now the mac hangul input lets you switch to english by hitting ALT. But you have to hold the key down. It's not an on/off toggle.

[hojucandy]

The command-space combination always switches first to the last "other" keyboard you were using. It doesn;t cycle through them all unless you keep pressing it.

I have 5 different keyboards that are commonly used on my Mac. Australian English, HNC Romaja (logicalKorean), 2-Set Korea (illogical Korean style setup), Devanagari (I type in Hindi quite a bit) and Arabic (for Urdu). The HNC Romaja gets the most use so is nearly always the first option when I hit the switch combination. If not, then it will next time I use it.

Simple.

[jizza]

Ok I see. You have command space shortcut for previous input

I had it on "next input", which wasn't showing me that cycling screen.

This is somewhat better, thank you.