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From: duggie@Jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt)
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Subject: Re: Extremely weird behavior by Macintosh  (computer bites dog :-)
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Date: 21 Sep 88 20:57:45 GMT
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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