On 3/21/01 3:09 PM, "Justin Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been testing the "Japanese contact format" on a few contacts, and I'm
> very impressed. Kudos! There only seemed to be one shortcoming, which I
> would love to see addressed in an upcoming release.
>
> I would prefer to use the "Last Name" and "First Name" fields for roman
> characters, and instead use two (currently non-existent) fields for the
> kanji. I understand that this might mean having three pairs of fields for
> first/last name information (roman, kanji, furigana), but this would make it
> easier to integrate Japanese contacts along with other non-Japanese
> contacts. For example, I would be able to type the first few (roman) letters
> of the last name in the Address Book listing to highlight the Japanese
> contact I'm looking for. This won't work if I enter kanji characters into
> the first and last name fields.
Try using the Nickname field. Autofill works on the nickname field.
> Another side effect of using the existing "Last Name" and "First Name"
> fields for kanji characters is that the name of the contact is listed as "??
> ??" in the title of the open contact window.
As Paul suggested, registering the app as Japanese will fix this problem.
We can only used the registered font in menus and windows. OS X fixes this
problem so we can use Unicode everywhere.
Dan
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