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...

:)

Czeṡċ jeszce raz

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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Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [188]

I can't believe this ever got going as a thread, but it's sure as heck been a fun read.

There was one particularly revolting post early on which left me doubled up with fits of laughter (I'll not go into specifics, although it did mention fish, sh'-bumpy and a leading supermarket - where else but PF could one get such an eclectic combination).

Anyway, why should Poles ming more than anyone else? Get on any bus, anywhere, and you'll have your share of mingers.

The worst I've ever smelt, though, is my neighbour. He reeks like a camel's jockstrap. Lovely guy, but, feck, he pongs, even though he spends most of his non-working time in the shower.

Now, he's from Lithuania - but that doesn't mean I can conclude that everyone from Lithuania is a stinker.

We need some serious research on this one. A big nationality*pong questionnaire, complete with focus groups held on buses at going-home time.

Then, if we're going in that direction, why don't we branch out and have a Brussels-sponsored survey into the EU's fartiest country?

There could be categories for the smelliest, the loudest, the most colourful and the most musical. We could even make EU aid dependent on a good overall national score in all departments (or should that be de-fart-ments?).

Cabbage-eating countries might have an unfair advantage in some categories, so we'd need to have several qualifying groups, just like the Champions League. Drawing mud would equal instant disqualification in any section/category.

It could replace the Eurovision Song Contest...we might even call it the Eurovision Pong Contest.

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 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!