
9
CHAPTER
1
1
About the Chinese
L
anguage Kit
What Is the Chinese Language Kit?
The Chines e
L
anguage Kit provides software t hat allows you to e nter Chinese characters on
your Mac
O
S
co
m
puter. You can use Chine se characte rs fo r the na
m
es of files and folde rs in
the Finder and as text in docu
m
ents you create in your applicatio n progra
m
s.
Most co
m
puter keyboards are de signed to type one-byte
R
o
m
an characters. The Chinese
L
anguage Kit software adapts your
R
o
m
an-based keyboard so you can enter two-byte
Chinese characters on your co
m
puter. This software is called an
input
m
ethod,
which is
based on App le’s
W
orld
S
cript technology.
(
For
m
ore infor
m
ation about this technology, see
“
W
hat Are
S
cripts
?
”
on page 14 of this chapter.
)
The Chines e
L
anguage Kit provides two input
m
ethods for the two Chinese writing syste
m
s:
Traditional Chinese and
S
i
m
plified Chine se. Each syste
m
uses
m
any char acters, and while the
characters in each syste
m
are related, they are different.
Both the Traditional Chinese and
S
i
m
plified Chinese input
m
ethods provide several
input
m
odes
for entering characters. There are three type s of input
m
odes based on the way
characters are written, the way characters sound, and nu
m
eric codes for each character.
The next two sections provide ge neral infor
m
ation abo ut the writing-based and sound-based
input
m
odes.
S
ee Chapter 3 for instructions on how to use the Traditional Chinese Input
Method and its input
m
odes.
S
ee Chapter 4 for instructions on how to use the
S
i
m
plified
Chinese Input Method and its input
m
odes.
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