[Ti] Taking a US computer to Europe

[David Remahl]

They only activate in applications capable of using unicode input, such 
as TextEdit, Safari and other Cocoa applications and well-behaving 
Carbon apps such as BBEdit (but not Photoshop, IE, Word, etc). Try it 
in TextEdit and see if they are enabled.

/ Rgds, David

On onsdag, maj 28, 2003, at 22:41 Europe/Stockholm, David DelMonte 
wrote:

> I can read greek and french texts ok. I have used the international 
> preference pane and selected French and Greek there. I can see all 
> three flags - US, French and Greek - but the greek flag is dimmed and 
> cannot be selected. The same goes for other unicode languages.
>
> Ideas?
>
> David
>
> On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 08:35  AM, David Remahl wrote:
>
>> I don't think there is Greek spell checking support, nor are there 
>> very many applications that are translated into Greek.
>>
>> This is a page that deals with Greek input:
>>
>> <http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/unicodeMac.html>
>>
>> Cocoa applications generally support Unicode, while some Carbon 
>> applications are lagging.
>>
>> Maybe someone with more practical experience of the problem can help 
>> you more. In Sweden we only have three "bothersome" non-ascii 
>> characters: åäö (lets see how the mailing list handles them ;-).
>>
>> / Regards, David
>>
>> On onsdag, maj 28, 2003, at 14:04 Europe/Stockholm, David DelMonte 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks very much. I can get french to work, but not greek or other 
>>> unicode languages. Any ideas there?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 08:02  AM, David Remahl wrote:
>>>
>>>> On onsdag, maj 28, 2003, at 13:20 Europe/Stockholm, David DelMonte 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to add country localization onto a US computer.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example: menus in French, dictionaries and screen text in 
>>>>> Greek.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it isn't a problem. Mac OS X only ships in one edition, fully 
>>>> translated into all supported languages. You need to select what 
>>>> languages to install during installation, but the default is to 
>>>> install all languages, I believe.
>>>>
>>>> You change your language preference in the International preference 
>>>> pane.
>>>>
>
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