Multiple Languages is a feature in Leopard most people don’t know about. Having access to this is great but it can be rather tedious to switch your spellchecker back and forth between multiple languages. Leopard introduced a Multilingual feature that makes the spellchecker check against multiple languages instead of just one.
To enable Multilingual Spell Checker:
From most applications like Safari or Mail, go to the top menu and select ‘Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar’. From the Spelling window, change the pulldown menu to Multilingual and click Change.
To enable the Character Palette:
The Character Palette gives a quick access to all special characters like accents icons.
From the Apple in the menu bar, select ‘System Preferences’ and go to the International Preference Pane.
From the International System Preference Pane, select the Input Menu tab and check mark the option to show the input menu in the menu bar.
You should now see the flag of your country on your menu bar. Whenever you need to look up an accent or special character, just go to the flag and select ‘Show Character Palette.
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Melvin – This is so very useful! Thanks!
My name has a umlot so I discovered the Character Palette soon after using my first Mac ( a G4 Mac mini I bought in 2005 ). Thanks for the multilingual tip.
Yes, that’s useful. But it would be useful to have a multiple spell checker like the iPhone that you can switch it fast anytime.
Oh, thanks a lot, I was thinking about my needing of this issue for so much time…