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Combine strings from multiple languages, now that all text is fully Unicode.

Translate English to Japanese and vice versa. This capability is now built into the Leopard Dictionary.

In Leopard, the Dictionary application supports the Japanese language right out of the box, with an industry-leading Japanese dictionary and thesaurus provided by Shogakukan. The dictionary contains over 200,000 words with rich descriptions and examples, and the thesaurus contains 25,000 words covering 6,000 categories.

Quickly access the fonts you use most often. Fonts are grouped according to your default language preference.

Use new built-in fonts such as Arial Unicode,

Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in the Russian language.

Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in Polish.

Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in Iberian (Portugal) Portuguese.

Enjoy enhanced support for international fonts. Several fonts have improved Russian and Polish support; the Korean system font now supports the full set of modern Hangul; there are two new fonts in Tibetan; all built-in Arabic fonts now support Persian; and Leopard supports three additional Arabic-based scripts in Geeza Pro, Uyghur, Kurdish, and Jawi.

Leopard is fully compliant with the JIS2004 standard, as UI elements in all applications are rendered using JIS2004 characters by default.

Put updated Japanese fonts to work. The included Japanese font families, Hiragino Gothic and Hiragino Mincho, are considered among the most beautiful of Japanese fonts, and they now support Hyogaiji, the new standard for Japanese character sets defined by the National Language Council and Japan Industry Standards.

Enjoy even more language support with Spotlight. A new Chinese tokenizer intelligently parses the search characters to factor in their relationship and meaning with one another, ensuring the most relevant results. Spotlight also has improved support for German and Thai and faster indexing in Japanese.

Take advantage of over fifteen new international keyboard layouts, including Tibetan, Kazakh, and Persian-QWERTY.

Take advantage of new input methods for Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese languages. Leopard also offers two new input methods for Chinese — Pinyin and Zhuyin. Enable the Input menu in the International pane of System Preferences to bring up Character Palettes for several languages. Advanced predictive input for Japanese guesses characters based on context, with improved accuracy in Leopard. And localized help is provided for all of the CJK input methods, including English.

Get more out of Terminal. The Core Text API for text layout reduces setup time and makes Terminal behave flawlessly for international users, with an increased character set.