Mac OS 9 and Language Kits: Setting Sherlock 2 to Show Foreign Characters

When using Mac OS 9 with custom installed Japanese language support, Sherlock 2 search results for Japanese files or Web sites contains unreadable garbage text. This article explains how to get this list to properly display Japanese characters.

Sherlock 2 uses the Views font set in the Finder to determine which foreign characters to display in the Items Found field.

To change the Views font, do the following:

2. In the Views Font pop-up menu, choose one of the fonts installed by the Language Kit. For the Japanese Language Kit, change the font to Osaka.

The fonts included with each Language Kit are designed to support English characters and each Kit's specific language only. The Language Kits do not currently support viewing multiple languages (for example, Japanese and Korean) simultaneously with the same font.

If you have installed multiple language kits with Mac OS 9 and use Sherlock 2 to search for items with foreign names, change the Views font to correspond with the appropriate language.