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>From: [log in to unmask] (Steven Smolnik)
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>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:20:10 -0400
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: #5149.2 Chinese Lang. Kit 2.0 Help (!)
>Organization: Center for Educational Technology
Dear Robert,
The issues that you mentioned in your LLTI post:
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>There is some WorldScript incompatibility from CLK 2.0 to MacOS 8.5; to overcome this; use the MacOS 8.5 installation disk and go to custom install and select the Multilingual Internet Access at the bottom of the list (turn everything else off). You can
>use popup there to select which languages you want to install. This gives you all the updated extensions for WorldScript, new bit-mapped fonts, and probably a new script for Chinese.
>What I generally do is install the Multilingual Internet Access stuff first (you have to manually go in and check this item as it is not part of the default installation of the OS). Then install CLK 2.0 on top of that to get the TT fonts and input methods
>(these are not included in Multilingual Internet Access install), always clicking "Newer" when the CLK install notices that some components have already been installed.
>There is a more serious font problem with the CLK that I have heard about but this occurs with MacOS 8.6 and Apple is aware of this, see:
>http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/8f865a2f87f25f04862566b20056f43d/0f8bf2abef23fe38862567b7005b46c8?OpenDocument
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may affect our disk image build for the Wesleyan Language Lab.
We installed 8.5 without choosing the Multilingual Internet Access option, as I thought that CLK 2.0 would install "newer" versions of the same resources that the Multilingual Internet Access would have installed.
Then we upgraded to OS 8.5.1 and ran the Language Kit Updater before updating to OS 8.6. I installed the Font Manager Update and ran Font First Aid from the URL you mentioned. We installed CLK 2.0 as the last of the Language Kits which we installed.
Because language faculty are scarce during the summer here, I have not yet had a Chinese-literate colleague check the functionality of the resulting work, so I don't know if I've cornered myself into a disk image that is not going to work for the Chinese
faculty and students in our Language Lab.
I hope we do not need to start over again! But I would also like your insights on our situation, and whether you might advise installing with the Multilingual Internet Access option as a requirement at the very first stage of the disk image build since
we are following the path I described above ( 8.5 to 8.5.1 with Lang.Kit Updater, then to 8.6 with Font Manager Update and Font First Aid.)
Instead of re-building the whole disk image from the ground up, I wonder if we could do a "Custom Remove" of CLK 2.0, then try a Custom Install of Multilingual Internet Access off of the 8.5 installer CD and then re-install CLK 2.0 or all the Language
Kits, finishing with CLK 2.0.
Your information is timely, since we are just starting to build another disk image, this one for a group of Macs that will have JLK, CLK and Cyrillic, but no other language kits. I'd rather get the 2nd disk image started right re: the Multilingual
Internet Access / CLK issue before we start loading the Applications.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
-Steven
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Steven M. Smolnik
Technical Specialist for the CTW Mellon Language & Technology Project
Wesleyan University - Fisk Hall -- 262 High Street. Middletown, CT 06459 U.S.A.
Telephone: 001-860-685-2920 (office) or 001-860-685-3348 (project development lab)
FAX: 001-860-685-2091 URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/CTWMellon
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