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Article #: KB287
Summary:
"Under Mac OS X 10.4.11, which keyboard layouts are compatible with MacSpeech Dictate 1.3?"
Details:
Under Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger), some keyboard layouts are incompatible with MacSpeech Dictate 1.3. (See list below).
Note: MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 was the last version to support Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger).
These incompatible keyboard layouts contain data in an older standard format, which is insufficient to allow MacSpeech Dictate to type keystrokes. Most OS X v10.4.x (Tiger) keyboard layouts have been updated to a current standard format that Dictate supports. However, several widely-used keyboard layouts are still in the previous, incompatible format.
Please note that all keyboard layouts for Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) support the current standard format, and are compatible with MacSpeech Dictate.
Below are lists of incompatible and compatible layouts. If this is an issue using MacSpeech Dictate with Mac OS X 10.4.x, you will need to switch to a compatible keyboard layout (U.S. is suggested), or upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard).
Incompatible:
Australian
Austrian
Belgian
Brazilian
British
Byelorussian
Canadian French - CSA
DVORAK - QWERTY CMD
Danish
Dutch
Dvorak
Finnish
French
French - numerical
German
Irish
Italian
Italian - Pro
Kana
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romaji
Serbian
Spanish
Spanish - ISO
Swedish
Swedish - Pro
Swiss French
Swiss German
Compatible:
2SetHangul
390Hangul
3SetHangul
Afghan Dari
Afghan Pashto
Afghan Uzbek
Arabic
Arabic - QWERTY
Armenian-HM - QWERTY
Armenian-Western - QWERTY
Azeri
Bopomofo - Keyboard
Bulgarian
Bulgarian - Phonetic
Canadian
Cangjie - Keyboard
Cherokee - Nation
Cherokee - QWERTY
Chinese, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional
Croatian
Czech
Czech - QWERTY
Dayi - Keyboard
Devanagari
Devanagari - QWERTY
Estonian
Faroese
Finnish Extended
GJCRomaja
Greek
Greek Polytonic
Gujarati
Gujarati - QWERTY
Gurmukhi
Gurmukhi - QWERTY
HNCRomaja
HaninIBM - Keyboard
HaninRomanBopomofo - Keyboard
HaninRomanRoman - Keyboard
HaninShenTong - Keyboard
HaninStandard - Keyboard
HaninYiTian - Keyboard
HaninZhuYinErShiBopomofo - Keyboard
HaninZhuYinErShiRoman - Keyboard
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hebrew - QWERTY
Hungarian
Icelandic
Inuktitut-Nunavut
Inuktitut-Nutaaq
Inuktitut - QWERTY
Inuttitut Nunavik
Irish Extended
Korean
Macedonian
Maori
Nepali
Northern Sami
Norwegian Extended
Persian
Persian - ISIRI 2901
Polish
Polish Pro
Romanian
Russianv
Russian - Phonetic
SCIM - Keyboard
Serbian-Latin
Slovak
Slovenian
TCIM - Keyboard
Thai
Thai-PattaChote
Turkish
Turkish - QWERTY
Turkish - QWERTY-PC
U.S.
U.S. - Extended
Ukrainian
Unicode Hex Input
Vietnamese
Welsh
Wubixing - Keyboard