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Don't forget, folks, ChineseTalk II *IS* *GOING* *TO* *GO* *AWAY*!!  Hopefully,
real soon now (like, a few more months).  When System 7.1 is released with
WorldScript, a whole new interface for traditional Chinese will be in place, one
that will also be used for simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.  It will
become trivial to get your machine to handle all four writing systems
simultaneously.  It will also be easy to write your own input methods.
Moreover, any application that uses the Text Services Manager correctly will
have in-line input methods.  

ChineseTalk II is a hack (albeit a brilliant one) made by Apple Taiwan to make
it possible to do traditional Chinese with System 7.  It was never intended to
be anything other than a temporary part of system software.  

This is particularly important because of the way ChineseTalk II "splits" fonts
into two copies.  ChineseTalk II 1.0 gives them both funny names and ChineseTalk
II 1.1 retains the older name (e.g., "*Ming Light*") for one and gives the other
a funny name.  This is a clever technique to make it possible to use ChineseTalk
II with ScriptManager stupid applications like Word -- but I don't think it will
be retained by WorldScript.  If you use applications that remember what font to
use by the font's name and not its number, it would be a good idea to avoid
using these funny-named fonts -- otherwise you'll have to be resetting fonts
over and over when you install WorldScript.  


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John H. Jenkins
John_Jenkins@taligent.com