http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/ Using Chinese on the Apple Macintosh Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:57:03 GMT Charles Lee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6864 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6864 Dear All, The group was created in March, 2001 for people to ask questions and exchange information on all subjects related to using the Chinese language on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:19:35 GMT WY http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6863 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6863 ... I'll just chip in here to say that I've just received an email from the author of PES to say that the present version of PES (Palm Encoding Setup v1.9.16) Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:12:48 GMT Kerim Friedman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6862 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6862 Ok. Based on the positive reports here, I went ahead and upgraded. After the upgrade I made sure that P.E.S. was still set to work wtih my conduit and then ran Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:07:29 GMT 傅可恩 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6861 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6861 Ok. Based on the positive reports here, I went ahead and upgraded. After the upgrade I made sure that P.E.S. was still set to work wtih my conduit and then ran Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:56:11 GMT Kerim Friedman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6860 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6860 According to the folks at Missing Sync, you shouldn't need third party software to support Chinese if you are using CJKOS on the Palm. I haven't tested this Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:48:37 GMT WY http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6859 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6859 ... Sync before and sync after, mine has worked fine through 10.4.6 update. On the Palm side the only thing I am waiting for is Palm Encoding Setup. The Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:20:50 GMT Chris Edwards http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6858 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6858 I use a Sony Ericsson P900 and and the new iSync is much better that the last version (which synced all contacts rather than just the ones that I'd specified Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:10:54 GMT Kerim Friedman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6857 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6857 Getting iSync and Palm working is a pain in the ass, it often takes me half a day to get everything working again if something goes wrong (which happens at Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:09:49 GMT Kerim Friedman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6856 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6856 For years I had been quite happy with PalmDragon for the PalmOS: http://www.pd.com.tw/ However, when I upgraded to my Treo, I found it became a frequent source Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:29:54 GMT Jens Østergaard Petersen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6855 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6855 Actually, what I wrote contained a mistake - Convert Permanently converts permanently, that is, when you send back the document with lots of tracked changes Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:39:38 GMT ann_in_oslo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6854 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6854 Thank you, Jens - I use Word so little that I wasn't aware of the possibility with prefs - compatibility. I still like the fact that Text Edit, Neo Office and Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:05:04 GMT  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6853 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6853 Small world. Actually,the problem here was a corrupted font. It wasn't a "square" box problem - but it is good to know about the "convert permanently" option! Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:02:29 GMT Jens Østergaard Petersen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6852 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6852 Perhaps I don't understand what the problem is, but every time I receive a Windows Word file with square boxes instead of characters, I open the Preferences, Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:38:17 GMT 郑玉萍(Tee G. Peng) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6851 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6851 ... Ken, thanks for the link. It runs impressively on my new intel Macbook. Takes 3 seconds to load the default Mozilla page. What really amazed me is that al Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:45:04 GMT  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6850 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/message/6850 Thanks for those links Ken! Its a huge improvement on my iBook G4 - and all my extensions and settings were preserved when I switched. Very nice! I just hope