Chinese Font for Word

[Tom]

Where can I get the Chinese character set (font) for word?
Plus is there a program that converts English to Mandarin?
and reverse?

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

You haven't provided enough details to enable us to answer. The Chinese
character set is installed with Macintosh OS. You need to install the
language and fonts from Apple.

When you have done that, Word will use it.

No, there is not program you can (successfully) run on a personal computer
that translates Mandarin: neither the PC nor the Mac has enough power for
that sort of thing.

If you happen to have a real supercomputer in your basement (and the two
floors above it) try Fujitsu, they have been working on one since the early
1980's. Last I saw, the thing would stop a large mainframe for several
minutes. And then give the wrong answer...

Cheers

Where can I get the Chinese character set (font) for word?
Plus is there a program that converts English to Mandarin?
and reverse?

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[Gene van Troyer]

No, there is not program you can (successfully) run on a personal computer
that translates Mandarin: neither the PC nor the Mac has enough power for
that sort of thing.

There are no translator packages that can really satisfactorily or reliably
translate one language to another if only because of the nearly infinite
possibilities of nuance, context, and syntax; but if you speak enough of
both languages you can use them to get the gist of most non-belletristic
material. In OSX there is a Translations channel in Sherlock 3 than includes
English-Chinese/Chinese-English that will give you very crude results. It's
often ugly and sometime hilarious, but might be serviceable.

Gene van Troyer