Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!Portia!Jessica!duggie From: duggie@Jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Extremely weird behavior by Macintosh (computer bites dog :-) Message-ID: <3703@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 88 20:57:45 GMT References: <6555@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@Portia.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: duggie@Jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 38 Alexis Rosen writes about using the Hebrew system on a Macintosh. I have experienced the same interesting quirks using Chinese, and have some work arounds, I think. To change systems (both on my hard disk) I do this: 1) put the current finder into a different folder from the system (I have a folder called 'hide finder' in the system folder for this purpose). 2) remove the target finder from its 'hide finder' folder in its system folder. 3) reboot 4) if multifinder is running with the script manager system, choose set startup to set back to finder only, and reboot again. This always seems to work. Like Alexis, I noticed that English finders work with foreign systems, only foreign-language file names are garbage in the finder windows. So in the folder that contains the script manager system, I have two finders in my 'hide finder' folder, one the standard English finder and the other the script finder (Chinese, in my case). I just pull out the one I want to use. I have problems both with quickergraf 1.1 (I am using the 5.0 system until a new 6.something comes out) and Appleshare, so don't use them with the script manager systems. Aren't foreign scripts great? Apple did an incredible job, now if they would only let people in the U.S. get them, and convince application writers to go the extra distance to support them! Doug Felt Courseware Authoring Tools Project Sweet Hall 3rd Floor Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 duggie@jessica.stanford.edu