Keyboard Activation in Mac Yosemite/Mavericks

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The process to add keyboards in Yosemite has changed a bit, so because I could not find screen caps on the web, I am adding my own.

Activate Keyboards

Yosemite and Mavericks

  1. Go to the Apple menu and open Systems Preferences.
  2. Click the Language and Region (U.N. flag icon)
    System Preferences in Yosemite. Language and Region is 5th on on top row
    System Preferences in Yosemite (OS X 10.10)
  3. Click the Keyboard Preferences button at the bottom of the window to open the keyboard preferences
    Keyboard Preferences button is before Advanced button
  4. In the next window, click the Input Sources tab. Click Show Input menu in menu bar at the bottom of the window.
  5. Then click the + key to open available keyboards by language.
    Input Sources with US keyboard only activated
    Click the + link at the bottom left to see list of available keyboards.
  6. In the next window scroll to languages you are interested. Highlight any keyboard you want to activate with the mouse, then click the Add key. Repeat as needed for each keyboard.
    Add keyboard window. See text following.
    The Dvorak keyboard highlighted and a preview is shown. Click Add button to add keyboard

Location of Certain Keyboards

  • English has U.S. Extended, Dvorak and keyboards for different countries
  • Others has Unicode Hex Input
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