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- From: sjd@frieda.mitre.org (Stephen J. Darragh)
- Subject: Re: Installing Multiple Language Scripts
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.105206.24539@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <jenkinsj-240792101125@tseng.taligent.com> <1992Jul25.140908.14652@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:52:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.140908.14652@tdb.uu.se> matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell) writes:
- >jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) writes:
- >:
- >: The easy way:
- >:
- >: Use the Installer. Install the Hebrew and Arabic systems over your
- >: English system one by one. This will leave your whole system localized
- >: as either Hebrew or Arabic (depending on which you did last), but if you
- >: don't mind that, it's fast.
- >:
- >: The hard way:
- >:
- >: Install the Hebrew system (say) somewhere not over your English system.
- >: Boot from your English system. Copy the following from your Hebrew
- >: system folder and drop them on your English system folder; the Finder
- >: will put them in the right places.
- >:
- >: #1. The Hebrew extension (Extensions folder)
- >: #2. The Hebrew control panels.
- >: #3. The Hebrew fonts, keyboards, and script (the System file--the
- >: script has a little "world" icon).
- >:
-
- If you have enough disk space to hold more than one copy of the system folder, you
- can get System Switcher or System Picker. These will allow you to have both systems
- and switch between the two.
-
- Put Switcher on your machine.
-
- Open the system folder and move the finder to some other location (up one level) and
- this will unbless the system folder (the icon won't show up).
-
- You can now instal Arabic or Hebrew on this machine, reboot and it will boot
- into that system.
-
- Move the finder back to the english system folder.
- You can now use switcher to move between the two (or more) languages.
- This is a very simple way and works with no problems that I have run into and I have
- been using this for the past year.
-
- John,
-
- Doing the hard way, is there any problem with the direction of text?
- The only word processors that I know of for Arabic are AllScript and WinText.
- The only DTP package that I have heard of is AllPage.
-
- A company called Davka has a ton of packages for Hebrew, and the above mentioned
- Arabic programs. Also Linguistic Systems offers software as well.
-
- Steve Darragh
-