--- Forwarded Message from "JEFFREY J. HAYDEN" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Resent-date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:20:37 -1000 (HST)
>Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:52:15 -1000 (HST)
>Resent-from: "JEFFREY J. HAYDEN" <[log in to unmask]>
>From: "JEFFREY J. HAYDEN" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: OS X 10.1 and Chinese/Korean
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>Resent-to: LLTI <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>ReSent-Subject: Re: OS X 10.1 and Chinese/Korean

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This from another list.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Glenn D. Tiffert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > I have just recently upgraded to OX 10.1 and no problem with
> > inputting in Chinese.
> >
> > Go to System Preferences -- from the Dock. Choose Personal --
> > International and then the Keyboard Menu. From there you can
> > choose Korean, Japanese, traditional and simplified Chinese
> > keyboard options.
>
> Not quite.
>
> True, the fonts and keyboard scripts installed under Classic (OS 9.21)
> are also available under OS X.  Thus if you have installed the Chinese
> LKs under OS 9, their fonts and keyboards will show up in the
> appropriate places under OS X and you will be able to display and sort
> Chinese characters correctly. This same is true of the Korean, Russian
> and other LKs as well.
>
> But, unless you install a 3rd party solution, you will not be able to
> input Chinese and you cannot switch the default system language for
> the user interface to Chinese.  You are stuck in in read-only mode.
>
> Why?  Because: 1) OS X does not include any native Chinese input
> methods, and 2) it does not piggyback on the input methods included
> with the Chinese LKs under Classic.
>
> Again, the same is true of Korean, Arabic, various Indian languages...
>
> OS X seems to require its own native input methods which Apple has yet
> to provide for these languages.
>
> Notably, Apple included an OS X version of kotoeri on the 10.1 cd, and
> therefore 10.1 fully supports Japanese including character input and
> default system language support.


                                        Jeffrey


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