Type In Any Language With The Virtual Keyboard

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Stuck in an internet cafe with an entirely different language set on the keyboard? You could frustratingly navigate your fingers along the foreign keys, tapping cautiously, and lashing out when you realize you just spelled an indecipherable word.

Or you could use this handy Virtual Keyboard from Gate2Home.com

This site enables you to write in your language wherever you are in the world, with an online onscreen keyboard emulator. All you do is select your own language, and a familiar keyboard pops up onscreen for you to start typing your message.

After your done, you just highlight the text box and paste it in an email, blog entry, message home, or whatever. Fantastic.


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Ian MacKenzie is the founder and editor of Brave New Traveler. He is currently editing the One Week Job documentary. Aside from writing, he spends his time exploring the fundamental nature of existence and wishing he did more backpacking.

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  • dougdo replied on January 21, 2007

    That would be a lifesaver for those times when you’re digging around for 10 minutes to try and get an @ symbol or some such thing. Thanks for the tip!

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  • ianmack replied on January 21, 2007

    Yeah I always seem to get email from traveling friends in disjointed english — puncutated by the occasional “damn, i hate this keyboard layout!” so definitely, this virtual version was a good score.

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  • Pia replied on January 25, 2007

    I could have done with that in Rome,actually. For some reason, all the keyboards at internet cafes there didn’t have a ‘#’ key (or not one I could find anyway).

    Not something one generally uses in a mail, perhaps, but as it was part of one of my mail passwords, it made logging in a little tricky.

    No doubt this virtual keyboard would have been useful for that!

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  • Paul replied on March 24, 2008

    There are more handy websites like this on the internet.
    This is another example.

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  • John Smith replied on June 8, 2008

    Check out 2keystrokes.com. You will find customizable virtual keyboards fully integrated in a bulletin board.

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  • Emily replied on May 27, 2009

    I read your website every week, its great and got lots of information to take in and lots of interesting articles.

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