How to use chat in Mail

I have an outstanding thread with lots of questions about OS X's Mail and I feel it's getting nowhere but me sking more questions in the same thread.
SO can someone explain to me how the chat function works? I CAN log onto iChat and talk with my gmail contacts...but I want to do it in Mail. Do I have to sign on to iChat? If I have to do that why not just sign onto regular gmail?
thanks!

Hi Tom,
I am sure my thinking on this is of the fuzzy variety.
However. In Leopard there is the International Pane which you can set the Language that your computer uses.
You can also set the Keyboard input which puts the Flag icon in the Menu bar.
You can also set Formats. (Alters things like the way the date is formatted and what weight measurements you use).
I believe that this is called Text (and Something) in Lion.
My thinks went something along the lines of:-
If I change the Language does this effect the Spellcheck Dictionary is a way that would allow me (or the Original Poster) to type in one language and spellcheck in another ?
Or if i set the format differently would this make a change ?
(I know if I change Format to the United States I can SMS to US Phone Numbers On services that provide th AIM link) from over here in iChat).
I can see that there are great flaws in this thinking and one would probably need to know what the word was in the first place.
10:55 PM Saturday; August 13, 2011
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