Mountain Lion announcements

[Joe Lewis]

Interesting info regarding Chinese language support in the upcoming
Mountain Lion release:

http://www.macworld.com/article/165407/2012/02/hands_on_with_apples_new_os_x_mountain_lion.html

Apple’s had huge success in China lately, most particularly with
the iPhone. With Mountain Lion, the company is trying to improve
support for those who write in Chinese as well as recognizing that
most of the popular sites that Apple integrates with OS X aren’t
actually available within China.

On the text-input side, Mountain Lion will offer better
suggestions and corrections via a dynamically updated dictionary,
something an Apple representative told me was because Chinese word
usages are evolving rapidly. Apparently English words are often
inserted in Chinese text, so Mountain Lion allows the mixing of Pinyin
and English without switching between keyboard layouts. Apple says
Mountain Lion also doubles the number of characters recognized by
trackpad-based handwriting recognition.

On the Internet services side, Mountain Lion offers support for
Chinese alternatives to several worldwide services. Search-engine
Baidu is now an option in Safari. Chinese microblogging service Sina
weibo is supported in Share Sheets, just as Twitter is. In addition to
Vimeo and Flickr, Mountain Lion will support sharing to Chinese video-
sharing sites Youku and Tudou. And Mail, Contacts, and Calendar
syncing will be supported to Chinese service providers QQ, 126, and
163.