[comp.sys.mac.system] Help on Foreign Systems

michaelg@neon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald) (04/22/91)

What do you need to install in the system file so that you can read
filenames created by an International system.

In particular, if you have two people who use the same computer, and
one boots off of the Hebrew system and one boots off of the standard
US system, then filenames created in Hebrew show up as all boxes
(undefined characters) in the standard system.  

Alternatively, is there some way to have the Hebrew system work so
that when you select Roman input the dialogue/alert boxes and menus
appear in English, but when you select Hebrew input they all appear in
Hebrew?  (Actually, I thought this was the way it was supposed to work
- why aren't all resource lookups indirected through some
internationalization code?  Or is the assumption that a program or
system will only be configured at a given time for one or the other
language?)

Thanks for any help.  Unless there is some general interest in this,
please send any responses by E-Mail to michaelg@cs.stanford.edu.