14-1. About
Multilingual Environment
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Magellan supports multilingual
e-mail. You can write message in any combination of multiple
languages and send it. Before you write multilingual e-mail, suitable language System or Language Kit have to be installed onto your Macintosh. You can use every languages which is able to select from the Keyboard menu of the Finder on Magellan. Any Language kit and localized System itself is not included in Magellan. We cannot answer questions neither concerning language and linguistics itself nor installation and operation of Language System/Kit. We also cannot answer how and where to buy the necessary software. Following table shows how to get the major language system. |
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| Asian | Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean | Language kit (included in MacOS9) |
| Devanagari, Gurmukhi,
Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali Indian language |
Language kit (included in MacOS9) | |
| Thai | Internet (No warranty of work) | |
| Tibetan | Otani University (distributed only to scholars) | |
| Middle East | Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew | Language kit (included in MacOS9) |
| Roman | English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Faerose, Flemish..etc. | Available on MacOS |
| Cyrillic | Russian, Ukrainian | Language kit (included in MacOS9) |
| Eastern European | Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, | Language kit (included in MacOS9) |
| Eastern European | Estonian, Romanian, Slovenian | Available at the local store |
Magellan does not have limitation in the use of multilingual message however, the receiver' computer system you want to send multilingual e-mail requires that it can show the same languages as your system. For example, you can easily imagine that Arabic e-mail you have sent to Arabian person is probably read correctly but Japanese e-mail possibly cannot be shown on his computer system.
If you install multilingual system, the memory requirement will in crease considerably according to the combination of the languages. Because the performance of computer will be worse, too many multilingual environment cannot be recommended especially on the old models of Macintosh.
14-2. Available Multilingual items on Magellan
Following Multilingual items are available on Magellan.
On item described as No limitation, you can use any languages with any combination.
Notice: According to the receiver's system, it is possible that multilingual items you have used in the e-mail cannot be shown correctly on the receiver's computer.
| E-mail body | No limitation |
| Subject | 4 languages at most |
| Nickname | Any single language |
| Find keyword | Any single language |
| Text clip | No limitation |
14-3. Available languages of message on Magellan
On Magellan, you can use various languages which are available on the Macintosh.
Magellan also can show e-mail in various languages written and sent with other e-mail client software.
As e-mail correspondence by Magellan does not lose lingual and style attribute, you can edit received text directly on the multilingual word processor or multilingual DTP.
On RFC the protocols of the Internet are standardized for each languages.
You can write multilingual e-mail up to the standard.
Thus Magellan does not support all the language.
Concretely, following ISO standardized languages are supported.
| Western European (cf.1) | |
| Japanese | |
| Traditional Chinese | |
| Simplified Chinese | |
| Korean | |
| Cyrillic (cf.2) | |
| Greek | |
| Turkish | |
| Central European (cf.3) | |
| Arabic (cf.4) | |
| Hebrew (cf.5) |
(cf1) Western European consists of following 38 languages.
English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Maltese, Turkish, Croatian, Lapp, Faerose, Flemish, Irish, Albanian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay, Somali,Swahili, Rwanda, Rundi, Chewa, Malagasy, Welsh, Basque, Catalan, Latin, Quechua, Guarani, Aymara, Javanese, Sudanese
(cf2) Cyrillic consists of following
15 languages.
Russian, Servian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian,
Uzbek, Kazakh, Azerbaijan, Moldovan, Kirghiz, Tajiki, Turkmen,
Mongolian, Tatar
(cf3) Central European consists
of following 9 languages.
Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, Estonian, Lettish, Romanian, Czech,
Slovak, Slovenian
(cf4) Arabic consists of following
10 languages.
Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Azerbaijani, Pashto, Kurdish, Kashmiri,
Sindhi, Malay, Uighur
(cf5) Hebrew consists of following
2 languages.
Hebrew, Yiddish
14-4. Limitations in use of Languages
on the Internet
Magellan basically support above mentioned languages however,
you cannot use other languages whose circumstances on the computer
or the Internet world is as following.
*Out of international standardization. Although a language is
locally general, its standardization on the Internet has not
completed yet.
*Compuer Operating system does not support. Concretely, languages
you cannot always read or write corrently, according to the version
of MacOS.
Thus all of the listed languages cannot available on Magellan.
For example, Lapp is included in Western European even though
the localized computer system of Lapp does not exist. It means
that you cannot send or receive Lapp e-mail correctly unless
your computer has the font for Wester European that includes
characteristic Lapp character. The part or charater of Lapp would
be illegible.
In most major Western European or Central European languages,
receiving and sending e-mail with Magellan has no problem however,
you have to install proper font of minority language if necessary.
Please note that it is not the Font support
but the Script support. For the same reason as you cannot use
external character on e-mail, it is possible that the language
which has no Script on MacOS but has the font only is not available
on Magellan.
14-5. Handling of languages available
only on Macintosh
There are several languages which
is generally used on the Macintosh, even they are not standardised
on the Internet. Devanagari, Nepali, and Tibetan. Magellan can
handle these languages if both the sender and receiver has the
same lingual environment.
For example, Thai is handled as Mac-THAI, not TIS. Thus e-mail
will be impossible to read unless the receiver's computer operating
system has the same lingual environment as the sender's.
The languages which Magellan does not have font setting of is handled as Local languages inside. Following 17 languages are able to send out correctly to the Macintosh.
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya,
Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayaram, Sinhalese, Thai,
Laotian, Tibetan, Mongolian, Ethiopic, Vietnamese Latin, Shidhi
14-6. About format of sending e-mail
If you write e-mail in single language,
Magellan send automatically in most suitable encoding.
On Multilingal e-mail, Magellan has two ways. MultiScript and Unicode. If you will send multilingual e-mail, selection of the way is very important. Both has benefits and weak points.
If you send by Unicode, any languages are
available however, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese and Korean (Hanja) lost the lingual attribute because
they share the same table. For example, even Kanji is shown correctly,
they cannot be distinguished from each other.
Accordingly, text in these Asian languages sent by Unicode is
unavailable to edit directly.
You can use Unicode when you send other e-mail client software
that can read Unicode. If you send e-mail to Magellan, MultiScript
is recommended, as both the lingual and style attribute is sent
correctly.
14-7. About Unicode
Unicode is the code systematization in which characters of various
languages are unified into one table. Multilingual e-mail on
Windows usually uses Unicode. On the Macintosh, MultiScript and
Unicode is available.
Unicode handles similar Kanji characters of different 2 byte-languages
which are Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional) and Korean
as the same code, that is called 'Han unification'. Accordingly
even the some of Kanji are completely different on JIS, GB, Big5
and KIS because their codes are different, multilingual e-mail
in these languages often lose each lingual attributes on Unicode:
text will be impossible to edit directly. There is no problem
in other 2 byte-languages than Kanji.
14-8. About MultiScript
MultiScript (MultiScript Mail Transfer Format) which is originated
by MAKI Enterprise Inc. allows to send multilingual e-mail with
each lingual attribute. Most remarkable difference between Unicode
and MultiScript appears in the handling of Kanji characters,
the latter never causes the problem such 'Han unification' and
garbage characters as is often caused in multilingual e-mail.
If both the receiver and sender uses Magellan, MultiScript
is confidently recommended. If you sent multilingual e-mail to
other e-mail software from Magellan, some characters will always
be illegible according to the settings of receiver's lingual
environment. Although e-mail body will not lose lingual attribute
and it is sometimes more profitable than Unicode to reuse received
text.
| TIPS | Differences between MultiScript and Unicode |
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MultiScript can be indicated either of
languages correctly if it is received with e-mail client that
can change encoding. 
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14-9.Compatibility with other e-mail software
| *Receiving e-mail with Magellan. | |
| Magellan can receive e-mail from any e-mail client software and written in any language. But installation of necessary Language Kit is required. | |
| *Sending e-mail with Magellan | |
Sending a single language that the receiver is using: Magellan can send to any e-mail client software in any language. Sending multilingual that the receiver is using: The received text will possibly be illegible containing garbage characters according to receiver's e-mail client software. If he or she is using Magellan, e-mail is correctly received. |
14-10. About RTL languages
Magellan can switch text direction and indent for use of Right To Left languages; Arabic, Hebrew, Persian.)
For more information about Right To Left languages, read the 14-20.
14-11. E-mail in local languages
Thai and Devanagari has Macintosh dialect. In these languages, you can correctly send or receive e-mail under the condition that he or she has the same language environment. But correspondence with Windows possibly cause some problems such as some of characters turns into garbage.
It is often that these languages intentionally sent with different charset. If you receive illegible e-mail written in these languages, select appropriate character set from Encoding Pop-up menu by yourself.
14-12. Special characters
Some of special characters in certain languages are unavailable on Magellan. Some characters which appears to be same sometimes uses different codes in each languages. Concretely, the character of trademark '(TM)' cannot be shown correctly under the certain language environment. Thus Magellan sent the character replacing with TM. The characters that Magellan cannot know or replace is sent as '?' character.
(Peculiar characters of operating system possibly appears to be different.)
Old version of operating system is impossible
to show ?
(Euro). It is recommended to update to MacOS 8.5 for correct
indication of characters.
14-13. About irregular e-mail
According to the language, e-mail
is intentionally sent by irregular encoding. The reason is a
possibility however, because e-mail sent by rule will not be
good result opposite: message cannot be shown correctly according
to the receiver's location.
If both the sender and receiver who uses Magellan or Outlook
Express understand the condition, receiver can read message correctly
by switching to the proper encoding or character set. This method
is unavailable on other e-mail software.
Magellan can correct encoding by selecting the proper
language from Popup menu even received message includes garbage
characters. But this is not the perfect way. If the sender had
select wrong encoding intentionally, Magellan possibly cannot
show characters completely.
Notice: Outlook Express 5.0 or newer version sometimes causes
problem that repeated switching of character set increases garbage
characters opposite.
