Download You can download the latest release of TCFail from the provided by GitHub. Introduction If you are a Mac user who need to read and write Traditional Chinese, the first thing you may want to do after installing Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, may be to disable the default Traditional Chinese Font, Heiti TC (黑體．繁).

You can find that many people are keen to find a way to make the font out of their sight, try to use the system font of 10.5 Leopard, and discuss about it on Taiwanese Mac user forums such as and. (Links are in Chinese) The new Chinese system font looks really bad and it is almost a shame of Apple's design. It was created by SinoType, a Mainland China based software company who also create the Simplified Chinese font for Mac OS X and seems lacking the knowledge to satisfy the needs of the Traditional Chinese users in HongKong and Taiwan. The strokes are too thin and make it hard to read the characters on the monitors, and the forms of the glyphs do not follow the standard of Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan, and the convention of the publications. Some glyphs seem coming from the Japanese Kanjis, or some ancient alternative forms no longer popular today. And if there are some characters should be a series or have a identical radical, they may be also not created in a consistent principle. For example, the right part of '清', '晴' and '請' is identical, but '清' has a '月' (moon) while '晴' and '請' have '円'(the currency symbol of Japanese yen).

However, most users have a simple conclusion - it is ugly, and sometimes I think it could be a shame of Apple's history of design. The following picture compares the characters of Heiti TC and the standard of MOE- A smart design of Snow Leopard makes the situation even worse. The text engine of Mac OS X now sets font back not only by the current locale setting, but also detects what kind of Input Method the users are currently using. For example, if you launch the TextEdit application and use the locale other than Traditional Chinese, then try to type some characters with a Traditional Chinese Input Method such as Zhuyin, you can suddenly find that the font of the text becomes Heiti TC. Modern Epidemiology Third Edition. That means, you cannot just disable the font by changing your system locale! Ricoh Machine Id Serial Number.

What TCFail does is to help the users to easily change the default Traditional Chinese font to another ones and get rid of Heiti TC, they may want to restore the system font to 10.5 Leopard's, LiHei Pro, which they fell familiar to for years. By the way, the Traditional Chinese font of iPhoneOS 3.0 is also terrible, and you have no way to change it. System Requirement Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is required. How to use it? Select the font that you want to use from the main table, and then click on the 'Change!' The new font will take effect after re-login.

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Download source code You can download this project in either or formats. You can also clone the project with by running: $ git clone git://github.com/zonble/tcfail License The application is released under New BSD License. What I ask for Apple Well, Snow Leopard is really advanced, but the bad font totally ruins the Traditional Chinese Mac Users' experience. Realorche Br Gratis. No matter how great the kernel is, how fast the applications run, how many new technologies are introduced, there are countless users whose mother tongue is not English, if you do not pay more attentions to know about the language specific needs, or not to make right decisions, your products fail. Guys in Cupertino, please do not think that you are smarter than the native speakers over the language-specific issues, or try to ask the users to accept what you consider smart. If you do not speak the language, you can never see what the problem is.