Dew Wong

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

I used to be able to convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese and vice versa in OS X Lion. After I upgraded it to Mountain Lion, I cannot do so anymore. It just keeps asking to run the service which I have already done it. After clicking "Run service" nothing happened.

 

Any help please

 

 

Thank you in advance

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 4:12 AM

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

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  • by mike3004,

    mike3004 mike3004 Feb 26, 2014 6:27 PM in response to nicklim
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    Feb 26, 2014 6:27 PM in response to nicklim

    Hi nicklim,

     

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

     

    We also face the same problem.

    Do you fix it or not? If yes, how to fix it?

    Could pls send email mikechan688@gmail.com

     

    Thank you very much you help

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Feb 26, 2014 7:08 PM in response to mike3004
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    Feb 26, 2014 7:08 PM in response to mike3004

    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.

  • by mike3004,

    mike3004 mike3004 Mar 5, 2014 12:19 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:19 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    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.

  • by spacenewt,

    spacenewt spacenewt Mar 5, 2014 2:11 AM in response to mike3004
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    Mar 5, 2014 2:11 AM in response to mike3004

    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.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Mar 5, 2014 4:50 AM in response to mike3004
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    Mar 5, 2014 4:50 AM in response to mike3004

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

     

    https://discussionschinese.apple.com

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Mar 5, 2014 5:25 AM in response to spacenewt
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    Mar 5, 2014 5:25 AM in response to spacenewt

    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.

  • by spacenewt,

    spacenewt spacenewt Mar 6, 2014 8:33 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Mar 6, 2014 8:33 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    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.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Mar 6, 2014 8:38 PM in response to spacenewt
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    Mar 6, 2014 8:38 PM in response to spacenewt

    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.

  • by spacenewt,

    spacenewt spacenewt Mar 7, 2014 7:05 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Mar 7, 2014 7:05 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    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.

  • by spacenewt,

    spacenewt spacenewt Nov 19, 2014 3:05 AM in response to Dew Wong
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    Nov 19, 2014 3:05 AM in response to Dew Wong

    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.

  • by spacenewt,

    spacenewt spacenewt Mar 6, 2016 12:07 AM in response to mike3004
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    Mar 6, 2016 12:07 AM in response to mike3004

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

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