I am not entirely clear on the details and rational, but my belief is that OS X has most of the support needed for these languages, but that the fonts themselves were not shipped in OS X. In these cases OS X will use the MacOS 9 Language Kit fonts if present. If the fonts are not present, then the associated scripts and settings will not be available in the System Preferences.
What you encountered with the Cyrillic and Central European language kits also occurred with the Chinese language support up till the OS X Chinese language software updates were made available. OS X did not include any Chinese fonts, so the Chinese language support depended on the Language Kit for MacOS 9. I am not certain what happens for the input method editors, as I have only used the Japanese IME, which was supported from day one. I think the OS X language updates include additional fonts and possibly new IMEs. I suspect that the updates for right to left languages will also include additional system components when they become available. on 4/1/02 11:43 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I was booted in OS 9.2.2 recently, I installed Japanese, Trad Chinese, > Cyrillic/Russian, Central European and Hebrew language kits. Having rebooted > into 10.1.3, I now find all the Cyrillic and Central European scripts > available in the Keyboard Menu options in International System Prefs. So it > seems that you have to install them in OS 9 to get them in OS X? Is this > right? Does it make sense? Three Cyrillic Character Formats now also show > up in Entourage's Format menu - I don't think they were there before. -- Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
