Mac OS X speaks your language. Communicate in style with high quality Roman, Japanese and Chinese fonts licensed from designers and type foundries. Tiger displays these fonts with amazing clarity at any size. Other features, such as automatic ligatures, kerning controls and an easy to use interface for managing fonts, make Mac OS X a dream to use.

World Citizen

Mac OS X Tiger fonts encompass the long tradition of Chinese and Japanese literary usage, including the classical works of these languages. Japanese fonts include the HiraKakuPro and HiraMinPro families. With support for Unicode 4.0, Mac OS X Tiger can display the most highly-developed character encoding model in existence, encompassing the wide variety of types of characters needed by the world’s languages.

Advanced Input

Mac OS X offers superior input methods for Chinese, Arabic and Japanese languages. In addition, Tiger offers a new input mode, 390 Sebulshik, for Korean. When you enable the “Input” menu in the International System Preferences, you can bring up character palattes for several languages. Japanese customers will appreciate the advanced predictive input method for typing, which guesses which character you want based on context. An improved floating Keyboard Viewer Palette lets you see keyboard layout and enter text with mouse clicks.

Rosetta Stone

Mac OS X ships with localized versions of English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and includes broad support for many additional languages, including Thai, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Cherokee, Hawaiian, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Armenian, Russian and Greek, so you don’t have to purchase separate copies of the operating system if you’re multilingual. You can mix and match character sets in the same document. Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are already grouped together, so you can quickly switch to a new font in your language.