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| Knowledge, once achieved, becomes gratuitously available for the benefit of all. It is through this free gift of the knowledge acquired by the experiments of some members of society that general progress is possible, that the achievements of those who have gone before facilitate the advance of those who follow.... At first, a new good is commonly "the caprice of the chosen few before it becomes a public need and forms part of the necessities of life. For the luxuries of today are the necessities of tomorrow." Furthermore, the new things will often become available to the greater part of the people only because for some time they have been the luxuries of the few. Friedrich A. Hayek |
This is an unofficial webpage of Macintosh Japanese Language Kit (hereafter JLK) presented by me, an individual by the "handlename (/on-line alias)" of Du Yuan. For those of you who are not very familiar with JLK, here's a brief description of it from Apple:
The Japanese Language Kit is system software that supports Japanese language input on a non-Japanese operating system. In other words you can add the JLK to a Roman (European) operating system and input Japanese characters using a Japanese localized or WorldScript-savvy word processor or other application. This lets users include Japanese text in letters, presentations, and reports. Users can also work with files created using KanjiTalk, Apple's Japanese version of the Macintosh Operating System.... Once installed on a Macintosh, the Japanese Language Kit places Japanese as a secondary script into the computer. It adds extensions, a Japanese character input method, language resources, fonts, a user dictionary, and TeachText Japanese. The language resources provide script-specific information for line direction, word boundaries, date, time, and number formats. The original operating system is used, so there is no need to keep an additional system on the hard drive. |
Currently, there are available only two major solutions for the Mac users to have Japanese environment on their Mac: KanjiTalk and JLK (NOTE: Just to read Japanese on WWW browser, Shodouka or Elixer could provide a fast solution. I Like Japan allows you to read Japanese texts without KanjiTalk or JLK). Then why choose JLK rather than KanjiTalk? Because JLK...
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| And so on and so forth. Of course KanjiTalk does excell JLK in some other (but trivial, IMHO ;-) respects. But if you are OK with English user-interface, JLK would be your choice. If you are presently living in an English-speaking country and considering purchasing a Mac, JLK's got another advantage; because you will likely obtain the latest English system software with the purchased hardware for free. |
