http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#china
Note that the new Chinese fonts are "off" by default. When you "enable" them, the OS will ask you to download them. Also you may need to switch system preferences/language & text/region to China temporarily to see the new Chinese services in system preferences/mail, contacts & calendars and in app menus.
Dictation is available in English (US, UK, Australia), French, German, and Japanese. Any comments on how well it works in these languages would be welcome.
(I'm a little surprised there are no keyboards for Ethiopic/Amharic or Lao, since the requisite fonts were added already in 10.7)
Note that the new Chinese fonts are "off" by default. When you "enable" them, the OS will ask you to download them. Also you may need to switch system preferences/language & text/region to China temporarily to see the new Chinese services in system preferences/mail, contacts & calendars and in app menus.
Dictation is available in English (US, UK, Australia), French, German, and Japanese. Any comments on how well it works in these languages would be welcome.
(I'm a little surprised there are no keyboards for Ethiopic/Amharic or Lao, since the requisite fonts were added already in 10.7)
8 comments:
Still no French dictionary? Pity.
A small change: the built-in Japanese dictionaries have changed from Shogakkan to Sanseido, which could be said to be more widely used, but the loss of the very useful usage dictionary can be fixed by adding back the files from a 10.7 backup. (However, now there is Spanish and German, which is very nice.)
Sorry if I'm putting this comment in the wrong place. It appears that Mountain Lion now uses Devanagari Sangam MN as its default Devanagari font, not Devanagari MT as in previous OS X versions. This has distorted some of my documents (e.g. Keynote presentations) that were laid out according to Devanagari MT. Any idea how to fix this? I tried disabling Devanagari Sangam MN, which does seem to replace all Devanagari text with Devanagari MT, but in my documents it results in all conjunct consonants being split (e.g. प्र is now प् र). I don't see any solution except manually reformatting all of my documents. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As always, thanks, Tom.
Magnus - do you know where I can find the dictionaries in 10.7 so I'm sure I don't lose them before I update my machine?
Joe -- dictionaries are in Library/Dictionaries
Nikhil -- the behavior is puzzling, sorry I can't see any easy fix myself.
Hi Tom,
How do you "enable" these Chinese fonts in Mountain Lion? I'm a complete newb to Mac...
Also, it's a little off-topic, but do you have any idea if the Chinese dictionary (the three-finger click one usable on webpages) can be enabled while the primary language is English?
Cheers,
Steve
Steve -- You turn on the dictionary in Dictionary.app > Preferences. You enable fonts via Fontbook > Edit > Enable
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