Saturday 7 April 2018

Setup Vietnamese Keyboard for PC and MAC

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For Windows: Change Keyboard Follow these steps to change your current keyboard layout to the Vietnamese keyboard layout as seen above, (keeping in mind that the naming of user interface elements may vary between different versions of Windows): 

1. Access the Start menu and select Control Panel. 

2. Click on Clock, Language, and Region. 

3. Under Region and Language, click on Change keyboards or other input methods. 

4. In the Keyboards and Languages tab, click on Change keyboards... . 

5. The Text Services and Input Languages window pops up. In the General tab, under the Installed services section, click on Add... . 

6. In the Add Input Language window that pops up, type V or scroll down to Vietnamese (Vietnam). 

7. Expand Vietnamese (Vietnam) by clicking on the + to the left of it. 

8. Expand Keyboard by clicking on the + to the left of it. 

9. Under Keyboard, select Vietnamese. A check mark should appear in the box next to it. 

10. To see what the layout of the Vietnamese keyboard looks like, click Preview... . 

11. Close out of the preview and click OK. 

12. You’re back in the General tab of the Text Services and Input Languages window. Under Default input language, select the input language you want to use as the default. 

13. Click OK. 

14. You’re back in the Region and Language window. Click OK. 

15. In your taskbar, usually located near the system icons for clock and power, you should now see a language icon. The icon will display the two-letter language code of the language that you selected to be the default input language (see step 12 above). 

If you selected English as the default input language, the icon will display EN. 
If you selected Vietnamese as the default input language, the icon will display VI. 

To switch to another languagekeyboard combination, click on the icon and select the option you want. 

The icon will display the 2-letter language code of whichever option has been activated. 
Tip: To help familiarize yourself with the Vietnamese keyboard layout, you can print out a paper copy of it here and have it handy when you’re typing. Or, you can buy or create your own Vietnamese keyboard stickers and stick them onto your current keyboard. 

Keyboard stickers are usually available in light-colored lettering for dark keyboards and dark-colored lettering for white keyboards. Apart from the light- or dark-colored lettering, the stickers are transparent so that they don’t cover up the original lettering on your keyboard. 

If you decide to buy keyboard stickers online, from Amazon.com or Ebay.com for example, make sure they’re stickers you can stick onto individual keys and that you’re not buying what’s called a keyboard overlay. 

A keyboard overlay is a lettered paper or plastic sheet that covers your entire keyboard. The problem with it is that it’s hard to find the right overlay because it won’t fit onto your keyboard unless it matches your keyboard exactly in size, physical spacing between keys, and so forth. 


For Macs: Change Keyboard 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. 

2. Click on International. 

3. In the International window, click on the Input Menu tab. 

4. In the Input Menu tab, select Vietnamese UniKey. (By the way, your current keyboard should be kept selected. 

5. Underneath Vietnamese UniKey, select the input method you want to use: Simple Telex, Telex, VNI, or VIQR. 

6. Depending on the Mac OS X version you are running, you may or may not see the option allow a different input source for each document. An input source is basically a language and its corresponding input method. If you want to be able to have different input sources active in different applications, select this useful option. That way, you won’t need to keep switching input sources every time you switch between applications. 

7. Select Show input menu in input bar to be able to easily switch from one input source to another within the same application. The input menu will appear on the right side of the menu bar and display all the enabled language input sources you selected. 

Tip: Using keyboard shortcuts allows you to switch between input sources faster than by selecting the desired input source from the input menu. The input menu should list what the default keyboard shortcuts are. You can assign different keyboard shortcuts by clicking on the keyboard shortcuts option