--- Forwarded Message from Carine Ullom <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:50:17 -0500
>From: Carine Ullom <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: St. Lawrence University
>To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Global IME

Hello,
Can anyone tell me what the difference/relationship is between
Microsoft's Global IME 5.x (available for download from the MS website)
and Japanese IME 2000 (part of the MultiLanguage Pack).  I've been all
over the MS web site and it seems as if every description tells how to
use the products but assumes you know which is what.  I understand that
the Global IME included Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese but
surely there's more to it than that.  I had already installed Global IME
5.x and it worked fairly well, except that it mysteriously quits working
(after an unknown sequence of events) and gives me this error "Microsoft
Global IME 5.0 for Japanese is unable to  load the Japanese Language
Pack."  Why would it work for a while and then stop working?  When I
reinstall it, it works again and then one day I'll try it and will get
that message.  I've searched the MS Knowledgebase for this message to no
avail.
We recently acquired the MultiLanguage Pack and I've printed out the
readme for Japanese IME 2000 but can't figure out if I should be using
that instead.  (We don't need Korean or Chinese capability).
As leader of a small Language Center, I find I have to be "jack of all
trades, master of none."  Thus, I'm no expert in Japanese computing and
don't have time to become one.  I'm hopeful that someone in the LLTI
world can come to my rescue as they have done many times before.
TIA,
Carine

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Carine Ullom
Director, Carnegie Language Center/
Instructional Technology Specialist
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
315-229-5857 (tel)
315-229-5989 (fax)