I have a mac how do I set my office so I can type in characters

Question

Ive done it before on a PC

Answer 1

Every copy of Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 comes with built-in multilingual support that includes Chinese. Although 10.1 and 10.2 also support Chinese, we recommend that you upgrade to 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5 if you intend to use Chinese on a regular basis in OS X. In addition, all OS 9 CDs worldwide include Chinese support.

"WorldScript" is Apple's trademark for the technology that established support for multiple languages on Macintosh computers before OS X. It is also built into the Carbon framework in OS X. In WorldScript, each language has a "script" that supports the standard character set and encoding for that language. Scripts also contain instructions for handling lines of text, sorting characters, formatting dates and times, and so on. WorldScript provides two distinct Chinese scripts: Traditional Chinese (based on the Big Five character set) and Simplified Chinese (based on the GB 2312 character set).

Support for the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode is complete in OS 9.1 and above. Support for the Supplementary Ideographic Plane is complete in OS X 10.1 and above. There are four levels of Unicode support in applications that support Chinese on the Macintosh:

The principal criterion for a "Unicode-savvy" application is the ability to correctly input, display, and print Unicode characters in all planes. These applications use Unicode-aware text engines to store text internally in Unicode format.

Some applications support Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane, but they don't support its other, supplementary, planes.

Most "WorldScript-savvy" applications can now handle Unicode-encoded documents, but they are not completely Unicode-savvy. This is because they are limited to handling characters that are supported by WorldScript. While they are able to convert text to and from Unicode, these applications use WorldScript-aware text engines to store text internally in the standard encodings supported by WorldScript and the Mac OS.

Some WorldScript-savvy applications do not support Unicode at all.