- How To Type Vietnamese On Mac
- How To Type Vietnamese Keyboard
- Type Vietnamese Word
- Type Vietnamese Anywhere
- How To Type Vietnamese On Macbook Air
Mac users running OS X Leopard (version 10.5) or a later version should have built-in support for Vietnamese. Just follow these steps (but keep in mind that the naming of various user interface elements may vary from one Mac OS to another): 1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences. In order to properly wr ite in Vietnamese, you need to be able to use the accent marks that exist in the Vietnamese language. There are many online/virtual keyboards that show you the accent marks on screen and you can just continue to write on you own keyboard. UniKey Vietnamese Keyboard UniKey is the most popular Vietnamese keyboard for Windows. The core UniKey Vietnamese Input Method is also the engine for many Vietnamese keyboards in Linux, macOS and iOS. UniKey is free of charge. Source code for the UniKey Vietnamese Input Method is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
How To Type Vietnamese On Mac
Use these instructions to begin typing in Vietnamese on an Apple computer.
These instructions will help you to install the proper Vietnamese characterson an iMac, eMac, PowerBook, Mac Mini, or Power Mac running Mac OS X. Actuallyall the fonts you need are already installed and you simply need to enable theVietnamese font input method on the Macintosh.
To write in Vietnamese on an Apple computer with Mac OS X, follow theseinstructions:
Click on 'System Preferences'. The icon looks like a light switchnext to an Apple in the dock as shown below:
How To Type Vietnamese Keyboard
In the System Preferences window, click on 'International' asshown below:
Type Vietnamese Word
In the International Window, click on the tab labeled 'InputMenu' to see all the possible languages on the Macintosh. This window isshown below:
As shown above, check the box next to 'Vietnamese'. Also check thebutton 'Allow a different input source for each document'. Finallyverify the box next to 'Show input menu in menu bar' is checked.Compare your International Window to the sample above. When correct, close theInternational Window.
Now open any word processor. You will use this word processor to test theVietnamese font.
In the upper right of the display, look for the US flag (or your country'sflag). It is normally next to the clock. See the screen sample below. Click onthe flag to change it to the Vietnamese flag. Each program will have its ownflag. If you select the US flag for a particular window, you will be able totype in English in that Window. If you select the Vietnamese flag for aparticular window, you will be able to type in Vietnamese in that Window. Inyour word processor, select the Vietnamese flag.
After you select the Vietnamese flag, you will use the number keys andbracket keys to write the following Vietnamese characters and tones:
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The keys shaded in light green are tone marks. The tone mark is added to theprior vowel. For example, the sequence 2-5 makes the character ầ.
Use the shift key to get upper case Vietnamese letters.
Hold the option key to disable the Vietnamese translation and force the keyto be interpreted as an English letter or symbol. Hold the option key and theshift key to enter the characters above the numbers such as !@#$%^&*() andalso the characters {} which are above [].
Type Vietnamese Anywhere
Change to the US flag at any time to type in English again.
How To Type Vietnamese On Macbook Air
Tôi học tiéng Viẹt. (I'm learning Vietnamese.)
I'm learning Vietnamese and recently decided I need to start writing up some of my vocabulary so I will remember it. Back 1994 when I first started learning Vietnamese you had to run these totally hokey add ons so you could type the accents and the special characters.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Mac OS has support for Vietnamese (and most other languages) built right in. Here's a one page summary of how to do this. Basically you just select Vietnamese in the system preferences and then you can type Vietnamese and easily switch back and forth between English and Vietnamese keyboard mappings.
(This doesn't seem to be the case for Windows. Everyone I've met here seems to use some sort of add on to make this work in Windows.)
Vietnamese is a rare Asian language that uses a westernized script. Like Chinese, Vietnamese is a tonal language. This means that words have a different meaning depending on how you say them. In English we use tones very differently. For instance, we use an up tone to indicate questions. When you say 'Are you sure?' your voice goes up. In Vietnamese there are 5 tones that are written as accents. The accents are always on the vowels. Here is an example with the letter e: è, ẻ, ẽ, é, and ẹ. The first 4 go above the letter, the last goes under it. There are other accent marks but these are not tonal but indicate different sounds. For instance the letter 'd' makes the 'y' sound so the Vietnamese word 'de' sounds like 'yea'. However, the letter đ sounds like the English letter d as in dog. The Vietnamese word đi (dee) means to go. Vietnamese is missing some letters that we have. They don't have J or Z. There are a few special versions of certain vowels: ă, â, ê, ô, ư, and ơ. I won't even try to explain in text how to pronounce these, right now this is the hardest part for me. The tones are much easier than trying to figure out the difference between the sound of a versus ê. Oh well, practice makes perfect, if you practice perfect. And therein lies the rub.
I'm learning Vietnamese and recently decided I need to start writing up some of my vocabulary so I will remember it. Back 1994 when I first started learning Vietnamese you had to run these totally hokey add ons so you could type the accents and the special characters.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Mac OS has support for Vietnamese (and most other languages) built right in. Here's a one page summary of how to do this. Basically you just select Vietnamese in the system preferences and then you can type Vietnamese and easily switch back and forth between English and Vietnamese keyboard mappings.
(This doesn't seem to be the case for Windows. Everyone I've met here seems to use some sort of add on to make this work in Windows.)
Vietnamese is a rare Asian language that uses a westernized script. Like Chinese, Vietnamese is a tonal language. This means that words have a different meaning depending on how you say them. In English we use tones very differently. For instance, we use an up tone to indicate questions. When you say 'Are you sure?' your voice goes up. In Vietnamese there are 5 tones that are written as accents. The accents are always on the vowels. Here is an example with the letter e: è, ẻ, ẽ, é, and ẹ. The first 4 go above the letter, the last goes under it. There are other accent marks but these are not tonal but indicate different sounds. For instance the letter 'd' makes the 'y' sound so the Vietnamese word 'de' sounds like 'yea'. However, the letter đ sounds like the English letter d as in dog. The Vietnamese word đi (dee) means to go. Vietnamese is missing some letters that we have. They don't have J or Z. There are a few special versions of certain vowels: ă, â, ê, ô, ư, and ơ. I won't even try to explain in text how to pronounce these, right now this is the hardest part for me. The tones are much easier than trying to figure out the difference between the sound of a versus ê. Oh well, practice makes perfect, if you practice perfect. And therein lies the rub.