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14 Chapter 1

What Are Scripts?

The input

ethods of the Chinese

anguage Kit are based on Apple’s

orld

cript

technology.

ith

orld

cript software known as

script syste

installed on your co

puter,

you can work with dif ferent languages and the writing syste

s they use.

A script syste

tells your co

puter a nu

ber of things, su ch as

m the characters the script contains and the keystroke s that produce each character

m the direction in which text ﬂows

(

left to right or right to left

)

m how to sort words

m how to separate words and lines of text

m how to f or

at dates, ti

es, nu

bers, and currency

The script used by y our syste

software is your co

puter’s

pri

ary script.

It deter

ines

the characters us ed in the

enus, dialog boxes, and oth er ite

s on your co

puter screen,

and the for

ats used for dates , ti

es, nu

bers, and currency.

For e xa

ple, if you’re working in English, then the

an script is your pri

ary script. This

eans that the

an character set is available to you and that text ﬂows f ro

left to right as

you type characters .

If you install a language kit that uses a different script, that script beco

es a

secondary script

for y our syste

. For exa

ple, when you install the Chinese

anguage Kit on a co

puter

using the

an script as the pri

ary script, Chinese is the secondary script.

The sa

e scrip t can be used by several languages, if they share

ost of t he sa

e characters.

Following are so

e exa

ples of scripts and so

e of th e languages they support:

—

French, Italian,

panish, English, and

m Arabic

—

Arabic and Persian

m Cyrillic

—

ussian,

krainian, Byelorussian, and Bulgarian

ebrew

—

ebrew, Yiddish

m Indian

—

evanagari

(

anskrit,

indi, Marath i, and

epali

)

uj arati, and

ukhi

(

Punjabi

)

apanese

m Korean

m Thai

The Chines e

anguage Kit provides two scr ipts: Traditional Chinese and

pliﬁed Chinese.

Each of these script s deﬁnes a keyb oard-based input

ethod. You can install eit her script, or

both, on your co

puter.

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