10.6: Show country flag on Input Menu on menu bar

Sep 18, '09 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: tofergregg

I keep the Inputs menu in my menu bar primarily for the Keyboard and Character Viewer functionality. Upon installing Snow Leopard, I saw that the icon for the inputs menu (System Preferences » Language & Text » Input Sources » Show Input Menu in Menu Bar) had changed from a nice colorful American flag (my default input method is U.S.) to a black and white (and ugly) Keyboard & Character Viewer icon.

After a little investigating, it seems that once you select a secondary input method (I chose Australian), the flag icon comes back! The secondary flag shows up when you click on the menu bar item, but you don't need it.

Incidentally, the 'Unicode Hex Input' input method is pretty cool if you want to enter Unicode characters manually (although I find it easier to search for the character I'm looking for in the Character Viewer, and then insert it from there).

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