Fix Keyboard Viewer and Character Palette bug

[thomasb]

You might have noticed that when you open System Preferences > International > Input Menu, there is no Character Palette or Keyboard Viewer.

This can easily be fixed by deleting some cache files with either a “payload-free” package and a postinstall script, or on first boot i.e. launching a script using a Launch Daemon.

Apple posted a solution to this problem on July 15th, 2008. These are the two lines of code you need:

/bin/rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
/bin/rm /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.IntlDataCache*

Mac OS X Leopard: Keyboard Viewer, Character Palette does not appear
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1896

Edit: I just noticed that Patrick Fergus posted a similar thread back in april 2008.

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