Compatibility Chinese and french keyboard

Hi guys
I'm french and I need to write in chinese with my computer
the problem is :
on tiger, no problems it worked, it reconized my AZERTY keyboard
but now on lepard : problem
my keybord becomes a QWERTY , not easy to use for a french guy!
is there any solution ??? (I know that you can change in japanese, why not in chinese ? )
Chinese : ITABC (I do not study traditional)
thanks a lot
xavhan

See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5668475#5668475
and the Chinese-Mac mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

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Symptom
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Other terms
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Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 30.06.2006 12:44:06
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Consulting
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
OSS Note: 776507
Symptom
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Other terms
SAPscript, SmartForms, printing, device types, OTF
Reason and Prerequisites
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3) The output character set of the device type
Every printer in transaction SPAD has a "device type" assigned. Device types used by the spooler for printing support only one single specific output character set. All text from the form has to be converted (using SAP's built-in character conversion mechanism) to this output character set.
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Example: HPLJ4000 is a HP LaserJet device type supporting the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. ISO 8859-1 can be used to represent e.g. Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish but NOT Russian or Japanese.
As a consequence, it is ok to use HPLJ4000 to print English, German French etc. but not for Japanese or Russian.
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When formatting a document, SAPscript and SmartForms perform an automatic mapping of the font definitions in the form (e.g. "HELVE 14 point bold") and the available printer fonts of the device type. A replacement printer font is chosen, should the specified font selection not be available in the device type. Now this replacement can be problematic if a language-specific font, such as Chinese CNSONG, is specified in a form and it gets replaced by a font which does not support this language, e.g. COURIER.
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The OTF Print Preview available in Windows GUI (e.g. from transaction SP01) will sometimes not show the "wrong" characters which appear on the final printout. Here is the reason: since the Print Preview runs in Windows environment, it will use Windows fonts to represent the actual printer fonts. A Windows font typically has more available characters (i.e. covers more character sets) than are actually available in a printer's resident font.
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Latin-1 (Western Europe/Americas) *******
DE,EN,FR,ES,NL,SV       COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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Latin-2 (Central Europe) ****************
PL, CZ                  COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-4 (Baltic) *********************
ET, LT, LV              COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic) *******************
BG, RU, SR, UK          COURCYR, HELVCYR, TIMECYR
ISO 8859-7 (Greek) **********************
EL                      COUR_I7, HELV_I7, TIME_I7
ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) *********************
HE                      COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) ********************
TR                      COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
Simplified Chinese **********************
ZH                      CNHEI, CNKAI, CNSONG
Japanese ********************************
JA                      JPMINCHO, DBMINCHO, DBGOTHIC
Korean **********************************
KP                      KPBATANG, KPDODUM, KPGULIM
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Traditional Chinese *********************
ZF                      TWDPHEI, TWMING, TWSONG
Thai ************************************
TH                      THANGSAN, THDRAFT, THVIJIT
Arabic (Unicode systems only) ***********
AR                      ANDALE_J
Verify your output by examining the OTF data
When analysing printing problems of this type, be sure to check the OTF data which gets produced by SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF or "Output Text Format" is the intermediate page-description format generated from SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF will contain the final printer font names and character set/language identifiers which help to solve the problem. OTF will even name the form and the language of the form used to create the output.
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//XHPLJ8000    0700 00000000001
IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
IN05%PAGE1
OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
IN06%WINDOW2
MT0024401289
CP11000000E
FCHELVE 120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
UL +0000000000000
SW00067
CT00000000
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//XHPLJ8000    0700 00000000001
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IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
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OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
The CP (CodePage) cmd shows the SAP system codepage used to code the text and the active language. In our case it is codepage 1100 and language E = EN = English.
CP11000000E
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FCHELVE   120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
Header Data
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Released on: 22.08.2005 09:57:20
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Customizing
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
BC-SRV-SSF Smart Forms
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regards,
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