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| RogueMD Senior Member United States Joined 5021 days ago 72 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 10 15 March 2011 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello!
Apologies if this has been covered; I was unable to find what I needed using the search function. I need a word processor for Mac (specifically my MacBook Air) that has fonts compatible with BOTH traditional chinese hanzi as well as hungarian. Interestingly, my iPhone has these fonts "built-in" but I need to be able to type on my laptop... very tedious using iPhone for typing. Thank you for any advice! Michael 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 10 15 March 2011 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have never tried to type Chinese, but I don't think you need to buy extra software. I think all you need is a Unicode
savvy word processor and the right fonts. I think TextEdit, OpenOffice or LibreOffice will do the job. I think the necessary fonts are installed in Mac OS X as default. Try to google mac os x and chinese, and you'll probably find out soon. Hungarian should not pose any problems whatsoever. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| RogueMD Senior Member United States Joined 5021 days ago 72 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 10 15 March 2011 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you...I'm going to try the shareware version of this!
I suspected most "good" word processors would have this function; however, I am very new to Mac products and was unsure what Mac friendly word processor was "ideal". (I'm kind of surprised my MacBook Air didn't have a "built-in" word processor). Anyhow, I will look into what you have mentioned above. I really appreciate your response! Thank you. Michael 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6245 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 5 of 10 15 March 2011 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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there's text edit, I think it actually supports characters but it's quite simple. otherwhise just get office for mac.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 10 15 March 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
TextEdit is "built-in", but as Bushwick said, it's quite simple. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| RogueMD Senior Member United States Joined 5021 days ago 72 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 10 15 March 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks Bushwick/tractor ... found it; and yes, quite simplistic. Will continue looking....
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5067 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 8 of 10 15 March 2011 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The Mac has different fonts built in under system preferences in language and text. Any word processor built for
the mac should be able to recognize these fonts. I just checked the options and it does have keyboard settings for traditional and simplified Chinese variants, as well as Hungarian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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