Some Good News with Pages 5

With Pages 5, there is some good news for people who write in Chinese or Japanese: One can finally add phonetic guides (furigana) in Pages, both in Pages for Mac OS X and in Pages for iOS.

• In Pages for Mac OS X, go to Format > Phonetic Guide Text.
• In Pages for iOS, highlight the word you want to add the text to > Click on the Right Arrow > Select Phonetics.

In both cases, you get a list of proposed phonetic guides for both Japanese and Chinese, including bopomofo: ちゅうごく, チュウゴク, zhōngguó, chuugoku, ㄓㄨㄥㄍㄨㄛˊ.

There is also some good news for writers of Hebrew and Arabic and other Right-To-Left languages, because that finally works too.