My mac does not recognize hindi? Why is this? Is there any safe software that I can download?

Answer 1

The Mac OS X has both language support and 'localizations' or full install languages of the operating system itself. A localization is an installation of the Mac OS system itself showing menus and messages in the given language. The fifteen localizations do not include Hindi. There are more than 6,000 languages in the world so it is not practical to develop and install all of them. It would make the system huge anyhow so Apple has to be practical. See the first link below (scroll down, bottom right on that page) for a list of localizations. All fifteen localizations are installed by default. I chose to not install any except English and Simplified Chinese on my Mac in order to save a lot of drive space. Now I can only choose to use the Mac OS in those two languages altyhough I can type in more than 100 languages. You have to think this over carefully at the time of doing a custom install of OS X because it will also give you menus and messages in those languages from many other applications such as iWork, Safari, iTunes, iChat and Mail. Updates of the applications will avoid the extra language updates if the OS localization does not include that language.

Besides the localizations of the basic OS, there is built-in support for more than 100 other languages, including Hindi. That means you should be able to surf the Web and type in the Hindi language. It doesn't mean the menus at the top, error message or other OS messages will be seen in Hindi. The International pane of System Preferences shows all the options for turning on Hindi input.

You still may not have the full and broad ability to see and type in Hindi fonts. To get that, you would need first to install Additional Asian Fonts from the OS X DVD. Then you might need even more fonts. The second link below has some Mac fonts. Because most of Asia has no significant enforcement of intellectual property rights, Windows XP and Vista are available on any street corner for about a dollar per DVD. Bill Gates has even been quoted as saying he doesn't care so long as they are using Windows and get hooked on it. Mac OS is not generally available at all in most areas of Asia or is available for a price which is similar to the U.S.price. This results in almost all Asian people (except the Japanese, who support property rights) using Windows and Windows fonts. You'll be hard pressed to get enough Mac fonts to keep you fully useful in Hindi.

As far as other companies' applications, Microsoft and Adobe are not very broad in their support of languages so good luck with them. My MS Word from 2002 could do almost nothing with Chinese characters. Word for 2004 is only a bit better. I can use the freebee TextEdit that comes with OS X for Chinese fine as well as Apple's iWork Pages and Keynote.

For Web browsing, Safari can use any of the 100 + languages in the International pane. Firefox has its own list and it includes Hindi.

Overall, the Mac OS is far ahead of Windows in language support. If you buy the home version of Windows XP or Vista in English, you cannot install any other languages for the Windows menus and messages. Only the Business and Ultimate versions have multi-language options for menus and messages. In a sense, Mac OS X is always "Ultimate".

Answer 2

those softwares are all crap and will be big problems no matter what there called there all really the same thing. if you wana download music for free just download it off mediafire thats what i do. i go to google and search "x x.zip(or .rar) mediafire" (the x being the name of the artist and the name of the album you want, you can also subsitute mediafire with megaupload and rapidshare i wouldnt cuz those sites are slower)