International Keyboards Not Supported

[MNBlockHead]

I was trying to use the English-International keyboard so that I could easily type diacritical marks on letters and found out that I couldn't.

Say I want to type: Incáno.

Using the ENG INTL keyboard (I'm using Windows 8), I type the letters "I" and "n" as normal, and then I type a single quote (') and followed by an "a" and it gives me the diacritical mark (acute) over the "a".

But as soon as I type the single quote in RW using the INTL ENG keyboard, nothing happens and I lose focus. I have to click on the field again to type.

I can cut and paste words with diacriticals just fine, but I much prefer being able to hit Windows Key + Space to switch to the INTL ENG keyboard to type words with diacritical and Windows Key + Space to switch back.

Strangely, I can type in Chinese just fine using the Microsoft Pinyin keyboard. It is only the ENG INTL keyboard giving me issues. I'm guessing that's why I'm not seeing complaints from non-English users in these forums. It probably works just fine with non-English keyboards. I'm not sure what is different about the INTL-ENG keyboard, but it isn't working.

I'll file a bug report, but I'm interested in whether any other users have come across this (easy to test, just add the ENG INTL keyboard from Control Panel\Clock, Language, and Region\Language

 

[Parody]

Sadly I don't have a Windows 8.x machine at hand (real or virtual), but I played with the US English International keyboard and Realm Works in Windows 10. The only problem I had was having to disable the default keys for switching input methods. (I use Ctrl-Shift a lot for various apps. Alt-Shift not as much, but sometimes.)

Yay, data? :(

 

[Vargr]

Had a look at my Win8.1 machine (terrible OS, btw) and wasn't able to locate English International. Looked for it on my Win7 machine (great OS); no English International there either.

For what it is worth, I can type Incáno in both versions using the Danish keyboard.
I can also type æøå and テスト - not sure if the forum supports it, though.

 

[Parody]

You're looking for "English (United States)" as the language and "United States-International" as the keyboard layout/input method. If it helps, here's some instructions.

Windows 7:
Open the Control Panel and pick Region and Language. (It's under Clock, Language, and Region if you're using the Categories.)
Switch to the Keyboards and Languages tab and pick Change keyboards....
In the resulting dialog, switch to the General tab and click Add. Scroll down to English (United States) and expand it and the Keyboard item under it. Here you should find "United States-International". Check that and OK out.
Alternatively, if you're not using English (United States) as your language, click Add, scroll down to your language, expand it and Keyboard, and check Show More... to show all the keyboard layouts. Scroll up to find "United States-International", check it, and OK out.

Windows 8.1:
Open the Control Panel, then Language. (It's under Clock, Language, and Region if you're using the Categories.)
Click "Options" next to "English (United States)" (or your language), then "Add an input method" in the next dialog. Somewhere in this list you should find "United States-International". Select that and press Add.

Windows 10:
Same as Windows 8.1. You can get there via the settings if you want:
Open Settings, then Time and Language.
Switch to the Region & language tab and pick "Additional time, date, & regional settings" at the bottom.

 

[MNBlockHead]

@Vargr, yeah, I can type using non-English keyboard inputs, such as Chinese just fine. As Parody stated, it is when I'm still using English as the language but use the international keyboard, that I have problems (Parody, thanks for posting instructions on how to add it).

The reason I like the ENG-INTL keyboard, is it allows me to type words from many languages that use the Latin alphabet, simply without having to use a drastically different keyboard mapping. Adding diacritical marks using the ENG-INTL keyboard is *much* easier than using the character-map application or having to adjust to a non-English keyboard.

 

[Parody]

One thing I forgot to mention but should be pretty obvious: if you pick a keyboard layout that doesn't match your keyboard style, expect all sorts of weirdness. Testing best performed on a US Model M. ;)

 

[Vargr]

OK - I have never before been aware of that ENG INT - even though I tend to add several langauges.

But the Danish keyboard has access to all the fun keys very easily - never seen a keyboard as versatile as the Danish (well, the Swedish and the Norwegian should be much the same).

Anyhow, did succeed in installing US INT (no ENG INT - unless I can't see the forest for all the trees) on my Win8.1 machine.

Selecting US English with US INT keyboard I can - in RW - write Incáno.
- Now, this is with a Scandinavian keyboard (hardware) on a laptop. Not sure if it makes a different (had to hunt for the ´-sign which happen to be my ø-key).

 

[MNBlockHead]

OK - I have never before been aware of that ENG INT - even though I tend to add several langauges.

But the Danish keyboard has access to all the fun keys very easily - never seen a keyboard as versatile as the Danish (well, the Swedish and the Norwegian should be much the same).

Anyhow, did succeed in installing US INT (no ENG INT - unless I can't see the forest for all the trees) on my Win8.1 machine.

Selecting US English with US INT keyboard I can - in RW - write Incáno.
- Now, this is with a Scandinavian keyboard (hardware) on a laptop. Not sure if it makes a different (had to hunt for the ´-sign which happen to be my ø-key).

I don't know that I want to familiarize myself with yet another keyboard when the United States-International works everywhere else. I think that the US INT and ENG INT should be the same thing, but I'm not sure why it would have different initials on your machine (maybe because you have a different localization?). This is what it looks like installed on my machine:



I'm using made-for-us Lenovo Thinkpad laptop. I have an older Lenovo Ideapad I bought in Taiwan that has a keyboard for Chinese input. Don't really have the time to be installing RW on it just to test whether HW makes a difference, but if I can't resolve this, I'll try—so I can at least know what to blame.

 

[MNBlockHead]

One thing I forgot to mention but should be pretty obvious: if you pick a keyboard layout that doesn't match your keyboard style, expect all sorts of weirdness. Testing best performed on a US Model M. ;)

Great keyboard, along with the old Apple Extended Keyboard, are true classics.

But, due to RSI, I ditched traditional keyboard arrangements years ago. My main workhorse is now a Kinesis Advantage Pro.