After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I cannot convert Chinese characters anymore

mike3004 wrote:

From your case about Office Mac 2011 under Mac OS 10.8 or above which cannot use service convert Traditional<>Simplified Chinese,

Do you fix it or not?

There is no fix for this. Use OpenOffice or TextEdit or some other conversion service.

Dear Tom and all,

Problem not fixed yet, it's quite frustrate.

I focus on

1. to create another service from auomtator to call the service /System/Library/Services/ChineseTextConverterService.app

but it's quite diffiuclt to do it.

2. try to some free translate apps installed with Services providing but still call the apps to translate from its interface, not metaphrase the content in Word.

If any idea, pls provide. Many thanks.

I couldn't figure it out either (same problems persisted in Mavericks). And just now I spent three hours only for copy and paste from Open Office since my translation case requires delivery in heavily formatted docx file type.

So I have two options: to roll back to Snow Leopard or to install Windows and Office via Virtual Box. I think I'll have to install Windows Office.

But if you figured out a way, please let us know. Many of us are in the same boat. Thx.

If someone knows chinese well enough, they might want to ask at

https://discussionschinese.apple.com

spacenewt wrote:

I spent three hours only for copy and paste from Open Office since my translation case requires delivery in heavily formatted docx file type.

Have you tried LibreOffice? It can save as docx.

Yes, I tried LibreOffice. It seems to have problems opening files involving tables and/or macro-setting, at least with the 2 files I've tried with. Also even if it opens nicely a file containing tables and bullet points, the Chinese conversion changes the format so it becomes even more time-consuming fixing it, not to mention frustrating.

Someone at the Chinese support site you linked to claimed that the reason this feature was removed from Pages due to the rewrite of iWork applications, and he/she believes it will be reintroduced soon (the person referred to this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US). If that is the case it means we will need to wait for a new release of Office for Mac with this feature enabled.

spacenewt wrote:

Someone at the Chinese support site you linked to claimed that the reason this feature was removed from Pages due to the rewrite of iWork applications, and he/she believes it will be reintroduced soon (the person referred to this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US). If that is the case it means we will need to wait for a new release of Office for Mac with this feature enabled.

I think it was missing from Office for Mac long before the new iWork came out.

I think so too if the problem started already with Mountain Lion. Is it rather because of the shift to 64-bit and dropping Rosetta-support?

I can't get any answer from the Chinese forum. It doesn't seem to be very active there.

After upgrading to Yosemite and updated Pages, it looks like the converter is working again in Pages. But not in Office still. Haven't tried much other applications.

Chinese converter in Office/Word is finally back in El Capitán!