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Macintosh System OS X comes with various utilities, but you need to activate them before they can be used. Unlike System 9, you no longer need to install separate Language Kits. Note that installing OS X upgrades from Apple will allow you to be updated on new.
Different viersions of OS X are named after different animals. See table below.
| Version | Code Name |
|---|---|
| 10.5 | Leopard |
| 10.4 | Tiger |
| 10.3 | Panther |
| 10.2 | Jaguar |
Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Devanagari, Gujarati, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hawaiian, most Western and Central European languages
Multiple options for Japanese, Armenian, Cherokee, Cree, Pashto, Persian, extended Unicode keyboards for Finnish, Faeroese, Irish, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian, and others.
Multiple options for Chinese and Korean, Russian Phonetic, Polytonic Greek, Tamil input palette, Nepali, improved Keyboard Viewer.
Tibetan and others
Macintosh keyboards are divided into newer Unicode varieties and older types labeled by their script such as Roman, Cyrillic, Central European, Japanese and so on. Many applications such as Microsoft Word support the older keyboards but cannot access the newer Unicode Keyboards.
These applications support Unicode keyboards
To activate different keyboards in OS X , do the following.
NOTE: If you are using foreign language scripts in "Classic"
environment software, you may also need to install Language
Kits.
International Control Panel
Jaguar (10.2) International Control Panel
Student Computing Labs - For the OS X machines in the Student Computing labs, a number of keyboards have been activated already including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Icelandic (Old English), and several others.
Other keyboards can be activated by following the instructions above, but they must be reactivated every time you log in.
To switch keyboards:
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Use the dropdown menu to select a script or language.The Keyboard Viewer shows the locations of different characters on a keyboard, but not variations in fonts. Those are in the Font Book utlitity.
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This utilitiy allows you to see variations in appearence between fonts. See the OS X Install and Manage Fonts page for more information on Font Book utility for Panther (10.3) and Tiger (10.4).
For locations of different characters on alternate keyboards, use the Keyboard Viewer.
Note: This utility was available in older versions of Macintosh, but was phased out as of Panther (10.3).
You can use the utility in OS X to generate many Unicode characters by manually inputting the hexadecimal code. Other options include saving word processor files as Unicode or UTF text.
Note: This utility works in supported only in newer applications including Dreamweaver MX, Firefox, Mozilla, Office 2004 and Text Edit.
Several sites list links to freeware keyboard utilities for languages not supported by Apple. Thes sites include:
To use these files, install them in the Library/Keyboard Layouts folder (use the main system LIbrary, not your local users Library). Reboot and Activate from the System Preferences International panel.
