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    Chinese Support in Leopard?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Steven_NL, Aug 21, 2008.

  1. Steven_NL

    Steven_NL Newbie

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    Hi everyone,

    I have a question similar to that of Hinz. I bought a Mac recently, a Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. The problem is that it only displays some (font/sversions of?) Chinese characters. So I'm able to type them and read some of them, but others are still gibberish. I tried installing both the optional language support and the additional language fonts from the official Apple CD. Neither of which worked, it still does not display the characters, even after I tried restarting the computer.
    I have an older computer as well, which runs on Windows and has Chinese support software installed, no problem there, I'm able to view all the pages I can't see on the Mac.

    Could anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance!

    Steven
     
    Steven_NL, Aug 21, 2008
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  2. Chris27

    Chris27 Notebook Deity

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    Steven, start a new thread. Reading through the first posts of a two year old thread was quite confusing and your question will get more attention with a thread title that is relevant :).
     
    Chris27, Aug 21, 2008
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  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've moved your post into a separate thread, Steven :). Good luck with your issue!
     
    Sam, Aug 21, 2008
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  4. maos

    maos Notebook Guru

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    in the task bar or whatever the hell you call that thing on the top of the window, go to VIEW, Text encoding, and select the correct Chinese encoding type.
     
    maos, Aug 21, 2008
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  5. Steven_NL

    Steven_NL Newbie

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    Maos,

    I tried that several times, but nothing changes. In some cases, characters I was able to see normally before turn into crap as well. Btw, the page in question is chinesepod.com
    If I try to run the Chinese BBC for example, it works fine
     
    Steven_NL, Aug 22, 2008
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  6. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    So then maybe it's the site's fault? (badly written html/whatever) ?
     
    cdnalsi, Aug 22, 2008
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  7. awes1003

    awes1003 Notebook Guru

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    I know it has to exist b/c I have a few friends in China who use Macs... If it is just web browsing make sure you dl the chinese version of the browser
     
    awes1003, Aug 22, 2008
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm experiencing no trouble with that website. Could you post a screenshot of the "gibberish" you're seeing? Also, which browser are you using?
     
    Budding, Aug 22, 2008
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  9. Chris27

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    It works fine for me under both Safari and Firefox. The only thing I did was check mark "install additional fonts" during my Leopard install. I did not have to mess with any settings to get other character sets to show up correctly. If all else fails, you can try to reinstall Leopard.
     
    Chris27, Aug 22, 2008
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  10. maos

    maos Notebook Guru

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    i dont have an account there so i dont have alot of chinese text to work with. however the ones that are present are displayed correctly.

    try updating or software maybe?
     
    maos, Aug 22, 2008
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  11. killer23d

    killer23d Notebook Geek

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    I am using Traditional Chinese on my Mac. I have no problem reading/typing Chinese at all.

    I ditched Safari and used Firefox. Maybe that's the case.
     
    killer23d, Aug 25, 2008
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