computer font question

[Jeffrey Kopp]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:30:46 -0500, George Lang
<george.lang at UALBERTA.CA> wrote:

>Maybe this is obvious to some, but I can't get any useful advice from
>the sources I have, and there surely has to be someone out there who
>has resolved this problem for OS X.
>
>Merci d'avance,
>George

Well, this is way off the topic of the Jargon, but we are talking
Macs and fonts and foreign language, and one of us (Henry) is having
a heck of a time with a Chinese font problem on his Mac.  He's using
Shoebox 5 which requires Word 6 (he has 6.0.1 on his Mac Performa)
and it works well enough on his end, but when the resulting Word
document is opened on his collaborator's iMac using either Word98 or
Word2001, with a font of the exact same name installed, he gets
gibberish.  I suspect that somewhere between his OS (6 or 7, I'm not
sure) and the iMac's (or between the different versions of Word), the
encoding scheme for this Chinese font has changed.

(I tried embedding the font in the Word doc, which merely crashed the
underpowered Performa.)

I am anxious to help him resolve this before he invests much work in
this project, as I fear the possibility he might have to change the
font he is using on his Performa for the Shoebox original in order to
make the resulting Word doc iMac- (or Word2001-) compatible.

I barely know how to turn on a Mac myself, nor do I know anything
about non-Roman fonts (on PCs even, much less Macs).  But I am close
enough to him to go over there and help--if only I knew what I was
doing.  Any Mackers out there who could help us, or can point me to a
useful Web reference?

Thanks.

Jeff