Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2004

Haven't used Chinese, but using Thai is now very simple. I think Chinese
is 2 byte and Thai only 1 (or is that old tech...?) but I think the
installation and use is much the same.

Just install the language when you install Panther, and then toggle
between languages with the little flag menu (that being the technical
term...) at right of menu bar, or with command space bar.

Thai has worked very well on the Mac at least from when my first was
bought in System 6 time, but it was always an add on. Panther (Jaguar?)
is its first inclusion with the OS.

No problem.

When he installs OSX, use English as the primary language and make sure you
select Chinese under the options menu (I think) . He can uncheck all those
other languages that he doesn't need as well.

When you want to use Chinese select Chinese as the imput, select a chinese
font in your favourite wordprocessing software and choose Pinyin as the
input system. I think Microsoft Word may be too brain dead to accept Chinese
so you may have to use textedit. If you use Indesign 3 then you have no
hassles.

Paul