Digest Number 1436

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there is chinese-mac group on . Most of it is about how to deal

with characters and different browsers. It seems like a whole can of worms

if we try to do this list with Chinese characters.

 

This is a little article I've been working on for a web-site.

 

 

 

I've got a Mac and I've been looking for a translation tool for Chinese to English. Needless to say I haven't come up with anything satisfactory so far. Eventually someone will come up with one and the components are slowly coming into place. Unfortunately, anything new in Mac will be written in OSX (which for me is sort of like computing under water). If you want a single character learning tool I have found a few alternatives for those who have Mac's. Wenlin still seems to be vital if a little expensive. Serious students will eventually get this great program. It also works well on PC's.

Clavis 3.1 at $50 attempts to be an alternative to Wenlin. It is pretty slow

but the components act in a separate windows. This makes it more convenient

than Wenlin's system of windows piling on top of each other. Unlike Wenlin,

though, the content of these text windows (for example, radicals) can not

be copied or moved. The big advantage of Clavis and perhaps worth the price

for those wanting to study Chinese is that any text can be saved and made

into a flash card file. I have found Wenlin's flashcard system, although

well meaning and more comprehensive, a bit awkward. Clavis 3.1's flashcard

system is so convenient I have been playing around it with every time I use

Clavis.

 

Neither of these programs are word processors. Word and Appleworks are not

that well suited for Chinese characters unfortunately. Mellel is a shareware

program at $25 that seems to work very well. It can make tables and has full

functionality of the fonts and sizes. Because it was originally written

for Hebrew it also can write from both right to left and left to right. (It

can't, however, write top to bottom.) It will make footnotes and also turn

your files into PDF's. This last feature is extremely nice.

 

The other program that is very helpful is the TextEdit in OSX. This is a

stable program where you can easily import and export Chinese files.

 

Clavisinica.com

www.redlers.com/

 

 

 

 

I can¡¯t read any of the characters in Outlook 2002 ¨C even with

Twinbridge loaded.

ÔÙ¼û,

Tim

(the characters above were created using Microsoft¡¯s built-in language

support using Word 2002)

 

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Fri, 23 May 2003 06:24:47 -0000

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Re: character test

, "rey tiquia" <rey@a...> wrote:

 

 

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Dear

I can read the Chinese scripts except 'Xiao Bian' 'urination' when I shift the'Character set' of the 'view section of my explorer broswer

to 'Universal Alphabet (UTF8).

 

 

 

thanks,rey. me, too.?