dannis ! i got it ... thank you...tried a load of fonts and then finally the 'apple li sung light' (which is traditional) opened it in character pallet & in the finder..... quit & restarted ie it's working! even when the preferences are back to english... now if i could just settle my dratted mail password problems:-). thank so much for helping. /s ======================= Sharon Cooper Creative Art Link http://www.creativeartlink.com sc at creativeartlink.com On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:31 PM, dannis chan wrote: > > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:24:31 +0800 > Subject: Re: [X-Apps] Chinese > From: Dannis Chan <dannis at macau.ctm.net> > Message-Id: <C8F3DDAC-1870-11D7-B278-00039314C5E8 at macau.ctm.net> > > I don't have a firm answer to your question since I added several ones > including Hong Kong, Taiwan etc. > > Chinese (Taiwan) [zh-tw] > Chinese (Hong kong) [zh-hk] > Chinese [zh] > > The Hong Kong and Taiwan for displaying the traditional Chinese > characters while the "Chinese [zh]" decodes simplified Chinese > characters. > > Hope this help! > > Dannis > > On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 09:58 PM, sc at creativeartlink.com > wrote: > >> yes .... but i'm not sure if i've chosen the right one.... need hong >> kong specific .... do you know which i should choose from the OSX >> includes? >> /s >> ======================= >> S.Cooper >> Creative Art Link >> http://www.creativeartlink.com >> sc at creativeartlink.com >>