feng
榜眼
Hi Folks,
Last summer and this summer I used a Mac. Very nice, but I had a few major problems relating to Chinese or China.
1) Some emails and web pages display with overlapping text. This is more prevalent with simplified characters. However, it does not always happen. I can get an email from friend A in China, typed in simplified characters on a Windows XP computer and read it; I get an email from friend B, simplified/XP, and it looks like stacked transparencies. If I cut and paste friend B's email into Pages, it displays fine.
For friend A's email, though it starts out fine, if I start hitting return in the various places in their original text to reply, it often gets wacky: moves stuff without my say-so, doesn't move/delete stuff I tell it to.
2) Mac OS 10.5 (10.5.4) is better than 10.4 for typing Chinese, especially noticeable being the ease of typing in traditional characters (basically all I do), but both Tiger and Leopard have the same problem with display. Sometimes when I type in a web form or browser search bar or email, if I backspace or delete a section, part or all of it will remain there, yet when I send the email or hit return to search, it is usually not there, but sometimes it is. Pretty annoying.
I can't remember if it happened when typing in traditional characters (though see number 1, friend A, above for why it is still a hassle (ie their simplified characters causing a problem)). I've tried all sorts of switching encoding both in "view" and in "preferences".
3) Some Chinese web sites, such as taobao.com, alipay.com, and the individual Qzones on QQ will only work properly (or display at all in the case of Qzone) on IE or Maxthon (when using Windows), not Firefox, Safari, or Opera on a Mac (or Windows) -- as far as I have found. IE ain't makin' a Mac version and last I checked Maxthon doesn't have one. Google is working on a Mac version of Chrome, but no telling when that will be out and whether it will work for the above.
I would appreciate any input on any of the above three problems. Thank you
Last summer and this summer I used a Mac. Very nice, but I had a few major problems relating to Chinese or China.
1) Some emails and web pages display with overlapping text. This is more prevalent with simplified characters. However, it does not always happen. I can get an email from friend A in China, typed in simplified characters on a Windows XP computer and read it; I get an email from friend B, simplified/XP, and it looks like stacked transparencies. If I cut and paste friend B's email into Pages, it displays fine.
For friend A's email, though it starts out fine, if I start hitting return in the various places in their original text to reply, it often gets wacky: moves stuff without my say-so, doesn't move/delete stuff I tell it to.
2) Mac OS 10.5 (10.5.4) is better than 10.4 for typing Chinese, especially noticeable being the ease of typing in traditional characters (basically all I do), but both Tiger and Leopard have the same problem with display. Sometimes when I type in a web form or browser search bar or email, if I backspace or delete a section, part or all of it will remain there, yet when I send the email or hit return to search, it is usually not there, but sometimes it is. Pretty annoying.
I can't remember if it happened when typing in traditional characters (though see number 1, friend A, above for why it is still a hassle (ie their simplified characters causing a problem)). I've tried all sorts of switching encoding both in "view" and in "preferences".
3) Some Chinese web sites, such as taobao.com, alipay.com, and the individual Qzones on QQ will only work properly (or display at all in the case of Qzone) on IE or Maxthon (when using Windows), not Firefox, Safari, or Opera on a Mac (or Windows) -- as far as I have found. IE ain't makin' a Mac version and last I checked Maxthon doesn't have one. Google is working on a Mac version of Chrome, but no telling when that will be out and whether it will work for the above.
I would appreciate any input on any of the above three problems. Thank you