Using Unicode to view multilingual text

    Mac OS 9.2 supports Unicode, which enables you to create and open documents containing special characters, including text from many languages and mathematical symbols.

    With the Mac OS, you can view existing Unicode documents but to type Unicode characters, you must install software from your system software CD.

    To turn on Unicode typing:
    1 Open the Unicode folder in the CD Extras folder of your system software CD.
    2 Drag the Unicode file and its four keyboards to your closed System Folder. To open the Read Me file, drag WorldText (in the WorldText folder in the CD Extras folder on your system software CD) to your hard disk.
    3 Drag Key Caps 9.0 to your hard disk.
    This new version of Key Caps lets you type Unicode and see the layout of Unicode-only keyboards. You can keep your old Key Caps and the new one in the same folder, but you need to change the name of one of them.
    4 Restart your computer.

    The menu with the flag icon contains all the keyboards you have installed. The Unicode keyboards and the special Unicode characters in other keyboards are available only to applications that recognize Unicode (for example, WorldText).

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