# How to switch to chinese character

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**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573 "2003-06-19T18:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![lydia219](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@lydia219](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lydia219)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573/1 "2003-06-19T18:14:25Z")

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Hi everyone:

I’m a Mac user. I need to type chinese character in Illustrator, Photoshop and Pagemaker. But I found it doesn’t work in English software. Is that mean I must find chinese version?

Help my ASAP

Thanks,

Lydia

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573/2 "2003-06-19T18:20:34Z")

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If you have a chinese font you can use that, I assume.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573/3 "2003-06-19T20:09:04Z")

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actually it is a lil more invovled than that due to the nature of the chinese language. You have to install the language pack for OS. Contact Apple. I just recently did it for Ukranian and japanese…although I am on a pc I believe it to be similar in nature…you may have to do some key board mapping also. In XP you can just switch back and forth

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573/4 "2003-06-19T20:42:44Z")

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yup - all you have to do (probably) is go to apple’s website and d/l language packs…

The other way is to use a chinese font - although you are going to have one helluva hard time to type out everything the letters being different and more numerous (i think)

what you could do with the font is set up a table - oneside for the english letters and the other side the corresponding character…

An easier way would be to ask someone on the other side of the pacific to type it up for you using that same font 😉

cheers - mlk

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**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-switch-to-chinese-character/23573/5 "2003-06-20T13:32:23Z")

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Thanks man:

I figured out how to typy chinese character on Mac. I found all osx software can support chinese. But it doesn’t work in os9. So i need to download chinese fonts for os9. Is there someone who knows where to doenload chinese for mac?

Lydia