:?: I wish to buy a keyboard for the czech language for my pc. Czech language only, not english and czech. Could someone direct me to an english friendly web-store where I may purchace one? :?:
try www.alzasoft.cz only in czech, but click on Klávesnice a myši I use the stickers on my english keyboard, only 20 kc :}
No I did not get the stickers from there, but here in Prague they are available almost everywhere you can buy computers. I bought mine next to I.P. Pavlova
Wow, 13 USD, they are less than one dollar here :roll: Glenn is correct, at least you can get them online
Supply and demand, I suppose - really irked me to pay $13 for a little sheet of sticky plastic but, what can you do? No such items available in Tampa.
Funny I should come across this thread, as I was only thinking about this a few days ago. I want to be able to type Czech characters on my English keyboard, but am not sure a couple of things. Firstly, a Czech/Slovak friend of mine messed up my keyboard a couple of years ago by changing the language to either Czech or Slovak. All my keys went haywire and when I wanted to type something in English I was getting different characters from what I typed. At the time I was still on Windows 98, but had lost the 98 disk to sort the problem out. Since then I have had my pc upgraded and am now on XP. I would like to be able to type Czech characters, but am put off by the problems that occurred previously, as p was installed by a pc engineer and he didn't give me a disk, just changed it to xp on his work premises. Sounds a bit silly, but regarding stickers and keyboard overlay, I would probably get a second hand keyboard and actually paint over the original keys with the Czech keyboard characters, and just switch keyboards when I want to type in Czech. Sounds a bit stupid, and it wouldn't solve the original issue for me with actually changing the pc settings, but once I get used to what is where! Other than that print off a Czech keyboard character diagram, and put it by the pc!!
Take a look at http://www.bohemica.com/index.php?m=catalog&s=80 you can have the functionality of both languages and change at will - doesn't require operating system disk. hope this solves your problem.
In XP, you can add almost any langauge Control Panel, Regional and langauge settings, langauge tab, add the one you want. To toggle between languages, alt-shift But you still need to have a Czech keyboard or the stickers to know where their letters are
Yes, just add the czech keyboard layout and set a key combination for changing your keyb. layouts (menu Start / menu Settings / menu Control Panel / icon Regional and Language Options / tab Languages / button Details... / button Add... / select Czech in the field "Language" and "Czech (QWERTY)" in the layout field / button OK / select English in the top field "Default language", if it changed to Czech / button Keyboard Settings (at the bottom) / double click the item "Changing languages" / I have there Ctrl-Shift for changing languages (the default Alt is too far from Shift on my notebook keyboard), you can change it / button OK / button OK / button OK - i don't know the real english names of the items since i have czech windows xp). Then you can paint "czech characters" on your keyboard according to this screens.
Interesting replies folks, thanks - I've added the links to favourites. And I'll print off the Czech keyboard layout.
