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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: KanjiTalk on MacII?
Message-ID: <46100279@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 17:20:00 GMT
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fons@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu(Paul Fons) writes in comp.sys.mac

>[misc. info on problem]
>It fails when he attempts to use it from the KanjiTalk system 
>with the message that it requires a more recent system (I don't recall the
>number -- suffice to say that the KT system is 4.1-J1, the latest system.)  The
>question is how long will it be before Apple releases a more up-to-date system.
>There is a growing pool of software that requires newer versions of the OS.
>Does anyone a tentative release date for a newer version of KT?
>
	This is a global problem in that Apple has to first get the US System out
the door and THEN worry about doing the international versions of that release.
So while Apple is behind, there is a solution....

	Remember that the Script Interface systems do NO require the WHOLE system
to run, they only need the INIT (which sets everything up) and a bunch of 
resources (FONTs, itlx, etc.) that set up the info about the particular 
interface (and in the case of Kanji, the dictionary file).  Armed with the
Script Manager Development kit and a GOOD IDEA of how to use ResEdit you can 
simply move the resources into your own US System and WOW! you've got USSystem
x.x that now also has the international stuff...the only change from using the
standard international system is that English is the 'system' language not 
whatever (which for most people is good since this way all the menus, dialogs,
etc. are in English...).  This method also allows for multiple languages
installed at the same time...I once had the Hebrew, Arabic and Kanji interface
systems all installed into my USSystem 4.2 (back when the SM first came out).

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