Subject: Chinese OS for Macintosh (questions & comments)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 20:23:37 cdt

I recently received Traditional ChineseTalk for Macintosh 6.06
and got a few questions and comments:

1)  What is the "Localization Folder" for?  How to use it?
2)  Is it possible to to make KaoHsiung the system font instead of
    Taipei?
3)  Where can I get more Chinese fonts: bitmap, ATM,TrueType or PostScript font?
4)  Is there a keyboard equivalent of the switching symbol on menu bar?
4)  Now this is a comment:  ChineseTalk for Macintosh is so easy to set
    up and use.  The resolution is good and even the original little Mac has a
    pretty high resolution.  I've tried Eten for PC, and it's a lot worse to
    use.  A few highlights of ChineseTalk for Mac:

1)  A symbol on Menu bar which you can click to switch b/t Chinese and
English.  The symbol is active even if you are in dialog.
2)  All Mac programs work in ChineseTalk.  No need of any specific TSR.
3)  A keyboard of symbols can be set to stay on screen so you can just
click to select symbols (such as phonetic symbols).  No need to stick
little stamps to your keyboard.
4)  Since the system is Chinese, one does not need to know a letter of
English to use it.

I believe Apple should push its international systems more and should do
all it can to make its international OS free on demand.

Charles C. Hsieh

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From: Huangxin Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 13:40:16 EDT

Just part of the answer for Charles C. Hsieh's question:

Keyboard equivalent for switch Chinese to English is "Control-Space",
this is the same in mainland system and Taiwan system.
In HyperCard, this conflicts with the "Hide menubar" key shortcut.
To hide menubar, it is "Control-Shift-Space".

About the default font, I believe it's possible to change it
with ResEdit.  Look at the System file resources.   Another way
is if you feel the Chinese font slow down the window updating in
Finder, you might want to replace the Finder by the corresponding
version in English (after all, Finder is a program).  In that case
you cannot see the file name in Chinese.  But the DA name in Chinese
still display OK (they are taking care of by System rather than Finder).

		Huangxin Wang, University of Pennsylvania