Language / Instruction how to install Polish diacritic letters on your computer [30]

It's not that difficult if you can go beyond Windows.

I use Linux, which allows me to install different keyboards on the same machine really easily.

Once you've got it up and running, you only have to change between keyboards by clicking on a menubar item. All it takes is one click. You can have an "English" keyboard one minute and have a "Polish" keyboard the next.

The "important" languages are installed by default but you must tell the system that you want use a particular one at a particular time.

Honesltly, it's much easier than the Windows way.

More info...

Even if you use windows all the time, you can use what's known as a Live CD to boot into Linux without affecting your hard drive. When it's asking you to set up, choose the Polish language option.

So you can use this to send your posts to polishforums without having to worry that you've damaged xp or Vista. Once you've finished, choose shutdown, take out the CD and reboot back into windows.

If anyone wants to know more, I'll be happy to explain how to do it. But go to ubuntu.com first of all and download the latest CD. (There are many other options, but ubuntu is probably the easiest.)

By the way, Linux is free. Nic!

Language / Instruction how to install Polish diacritic letters on your computer [30]

Don't want to sound repetitive, but setting up a Linux box does make it really easy.

My principal keyboard is Irish, my second is English and my third is Polish.

Which means I can get ą ę ż ć and everything else by clicking a box on the menubar.

It is much easier than trying to get "foreign" characters in Windows.

Language / Instruction how to install Polish diacritic letters on your computer [30]

It's still easier in Linux. Witek's tutorial is brilliant for Windozers but all I have to do is click a menubar item to switch between Polish and English.

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Language / Instruction how to install Polish diacritic letters on your computer [30]


Fair play to you ukpolska for keeping an open mind. You've probably gathered that I'm a Linux devotee but, in all honesty, I do find Linux easier for multiple keboard use than Windows.

However, I think my posts were perhaps getting to the stage where I sounded like a Linux zealot (heaven forbid such an awful thought), so I'll leave it there. But do check out Crossover Office as a way of doing Windows stuff in Linux.

Anyway, I'm sounding like a zealot again...

:)

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