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- From: jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Installing Multiple Language Scripts
- Message-ID: <jenkinsj-270792084816@tseng.taligent.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 15:54:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.105206.24539@linus.mitre.org>, sjd@frieda.mitre.org
- (Stephen J. Darragh) wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Yep, that will work, too. I guess I'm less than enthusiastic about that as
- a solution because it has a higher disk overhead and really isn't necessary
- *if* you can successfully install Hebrew or Arabic in your English system
- (as apparantly not everyone can do :-( ). Right now, I can move back and
- forth between English, Hebrew, and Chinese just by hitting command-space.
- It's rather nice.
-
- > 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.
- >
-
- Any program that uses the Script Manager correctly will handle bi-di text
- correctly. I don't know much about who does and who doesn't use the Script
- Manager, beyond the fact that Nisus does and Word doesn't. Word is a Bad
- Program for people using non-Roman scripts (*sigh*). The English version
- of Nisus works perfectly with both Hebrew and Chinese so far as I can tell
- (I installed Hebrew to learn it, not because I know it, so I can't test it
- very extensively).
-
-
- John H. Jenkins
- John_Jenkins@taligent.com
-