Chinese characters

Matt Penna matthew.penna at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 19:38:55 PDT 2007


On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:38 AM, William Ehrich wrote:

> One of my daughters is learning Chinese so I've been playing with  
> Chinese phrases in e-mails.
> I'm impressed with how easy OSX and utf-8, make this, but  
> traditional Chinese characters, 繁體字, are too complex to read  
> comfortably when they are as small as the surrounding latin  
> character text.
>
> Is there any way to set sizes to be different for Chinese  
> characters or kanji, maybe twice as big, when reading a text file,  
> without having to reformat the file in rtf or html? Might his be an  
> appropriate feature request?

Bill,

I use Japanese and Chinese frequently. To my knowledge, there's no  
way to do this in a way as easily as you suggest. If something's too  
small, I just increase the font size of everything with Cmd + and  
shrink it afterwards with Cmd -.

	Matt


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