Mac OS X: Asian language characters are unreadable when pasted into a Classic application

Asian text may become unreadable if you copy text from a native Mac OS X application (such as TextEdit) and paste it into a Classic application (such as SimpleText). This may happen if you're using Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

To resolve this issue, instead of copying and pasting text, drag and drop it like this:

1. Open both applications so that you can see the original text and the document in which you want to place the text.
2. Select the text in the original document that you want to transfer. If you want to select it all, press Command-A.
3. Drag the selected text and drop it in the Classic application's document window. That's it!