Mac OS X 10.2 multi-language support

Due to the popularity of information, the need for communication, and even the popularity of Japanese and Korean TV series recently, readers often ask questions recently, how to enable Mac to display or enter commonly used Chinese and English (mainly Japanese and Korean ).
In fact, in Mac OS Versions later than 8.5, many languages have already been built into the system as "standard configuration", but it is not clearly stated in the manual, in fact, you already have these software at hand, but you don't know how to use it. Therefore, we will explain the differences between OS X and earlier versions.

Mac OS 8/9
No matter which language version of Mac OS you are using, you can increase support for various major languages. Same useThe English, French, German, and other languages of the Roman alphabet are naturally different from the English version of the system, only in the way of buttons and keyboard combinations.BesidesIn addition to the languages of the Roman language, the second is the unit units that use the so-called "worldscript I" technology, non-Roman languages (such as some Hindi and Hebrew languages, and the "worldscript II" Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other double-digit languages. 

In Mac OS 8/9, Chinese systems (including traditional and simplified systems) are provided with more Chinese input than the English system at the factory, but if you want to add other languages, you must use the system disc for additional installation. After installing many Chinese language systems, you can not only view the web pages displayed in these languages, you can also enter these languages in software such as document processing (but you must use the input methods of these languages) and display the content of these languages at the same time.

On Mac, you can enter and display multiple languages, such as English, German, French, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and Japanese.

Install the Language System

Find out your system CD, put it into your computer, and first find a Software InstallationProgramThe folder is usually hidden in the corner of the window (usually in the workshop, in the English system is called "software installer 」, you must enlarge the window to the full size to see it. In the software installer folder, find the language kits folder. After the installation program is enabled, double-click the "Install language kits" image and run the installation program.

Open Several folders and find "Install language kits.
After the execution, you should be able to see the window content as shown in; the commonly used languages are at the bottom. Comparison aboveNot commonly used include Arabic, Russian, a variety of Indian texts, and Hebrew. The following red boxes show Japanese, Korean, and Chinese characters.
Select the note box in front of the language you want to install as needed. Later, it will install the program and font file required for this language. Note: The more languages you select, the larger the space required on the hard disk. the space required for each language varies depending on the font size and number of words. For example, in this window, if we select Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese at the same time, a total of about MB of hard disk space will be used; this number will be displayed in the lower right corner of the window.

In this window, you can select the language you want to install. Click the "I" button next to each item to obtain some information.

After the installation is complete and the system is restarted, you can check the Language Input Method menu in the upper-right corner of the screen to see if it is shown in. There are several more languages available. If yes, the installation is successful.

Web browsing

We assume that you are eager to view Japanese web pages, so let's execute web browser software such as Internet Explorer, and then enter the web site in the URL bar to test. If everything is normal, you should immediately see the homepage of the website you opened.
If the picture is garbled, it indicates that the encoding setting of your browser software is incorrect. Take Internet Explorer as an example. Go to the "View" menu, open the "Character Set" submenu, and change the setting to "Japan (Auto Detect.

Set the webpage encoding method to Japanese.
In the edit menu, you can also set preference to ugly. Under the language/fonts option, you can set the fonts displayed in various languages, set according to your preferences and language requirements.

Set the font of the Japanese webpage.

 

Simplified Input Switch

If you only want to see the Japanese image, but do not want to enter it, when you have installed multiple languages, you will also encounter a problem: Click"Command-Space key 」You can switch back and forth between Chinese and English. However, it is very troublesome to switch back to traditional Chinese only after you press enter to Japanese, then to simplified Chinese, then to English, and then to traditional Chinese.
If you have this problem, you can download a file named "Stay here !」 Control Panel software, in whichSet the two most important languages so that the "command-Space key" can be switched only between the two languages.If you suddenly need to enter these two languages, and then click the items in the Chinese menu with the mouse.

Mac OS X

If you are using Mac OS X, it is simpler. Because Mac OS X has been fully installed with a multi-language system, all you need to do is select the language needed for activation. And even if you do not do any of the following actions, as long as you select the correct webpage encoding settings in the browser software (refer to the previous article; most of the time, you do not even need to set the settings ), you can see the correct content.

Even if you do not make any settings, OS X will display you with the correct Web language.

Increase/decrease the input language family

To increase or decrease the number of languages that can be used to input text in Mac OS X, select the "custom list" command in the language menu (or enable "system preset 」, then press the "Internationalization" image to display the interface and operation picture of the control language.
Click "keyboard list.

The "custom list" command in the language menu.

"Internationalization" option in the "System preset" Panel
In the "keyboard list" screen, scroll the list to the bottom (assuming you want to addJapanese and other Asian languagesIf you are interestedEuropean languageCan be selected), you can see Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese and other options. Because I use a traditional Chinese system by default, I cannot select another one here.

Select the foreign language you want to use.
Check the language department and close the window. Later, you can see that the content of the language menu changes as shown in. If you do not want to use some other languages in the future, you just need to return here and deselect the unnecessary ones.

Added the language menus after the use of the language family.
In this way, you can input multiple languages in the file processing process, as described in the previous section in OS 9. Please note that if you only want to browse Web pages in multiple languages, you do not need to make these settings. You only need to enable the web page directly and set the encoding method at most. However, it seems that OS X does not have a dedicated ustay here !」 So if you activate a multi-language system,
During input, you must continuously press the "command-Space key" to repeatedly select.

Conclusion

since a long time ago, Mac OS has been an excellent operating system in terms of multi-language technology. when I used to work as an apple agent, I often solve such problems for customers, even set or install a language that can input Sanskrit for Buddhist monks.] Mac was said to be the only computer capable of dealing with Sanskrit typography at that time. As early as 1988, it had sold Arabic typographical System to customers. It is really not easy to say.
although windows has improved in recent years, and even has built in Windows XP to browse and input multiple languages, the actual usage of Windows XP is similar to Mac OS, it is quite simple, and it cannot be used in the multi-language layout. At most, it supports file processing.
in this regard, Mac OS x is more advanced than Mac OS 8/9, so that users need to set less. In addition, it supports the Unicode universal internal code design. Later, in the integration, Japanese, and Korean languages within the same language family, it retains very good scalability. Let's wait and see the perfect combination of these common languages on Mac OS X!