Does anyone know of a good way of looking up rare Chinese characters, e.g. those used in the Kaishu transcription of Oracle Bone inscriptions, that uses radical and stroke order but is available for mac? Babelmap, an excellent programme is only available for PC.
Since Babelmap seems to suit your needs, perhaps the best solution would be to make it work on your Mac. There are several virtualization solutions available, both open-source (Virtualbox, www.virtualbox.org) and commercial (e.g. Parallels, www.parallels.com) that will allow you to create a small virtual PC within your Mac. If you still retain a copy of the Windows XP installation CD, that's what I would recommend (low memory and hard disk requirements). Load Babelmap onto that, and whenever you need to use it, just fire up (or wake up) the virtual machine. Some of these kits even allow one to Copy+Paste between screens on the host (Mac) and client (Windows) computers.
Perhaps it could be worth a chat with the computer science support people at your institution, they will no doubt be current on the concept since virtualization is a technique that is often used for servers nowadays.
Best regards,
-Alan
I wonder this website (handian: http://www.zdic.net/) can help. It should include almost all rare Chinese characters. But I am not quite sure if it fits to your need for Oracle Bone inscriptions. What I often do is to look up, copy and paste. I think OS system on Mac already includes the necessary fonts for those rare characters, which are normally MingLiU-ExtB and MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB. I am not a tech, but I have found almost all rare characters I need by doing so. You also can do something similarly on this site: http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihanrsindex.html But sometimes the display of characters doesn't work as well as it does on Handian.
If you simply want seaarch these characters on pre-existing sites that are on line, then they will also work on Mac and can be copied (usually) and pasted. However, if you wish to actuallly install a software then I think your only solution ubntil such time as someone creates on for Mac is to make your Mac function like a PC by installing a virtual PC on the Mac. (The reverse is also doable). The how to is readily available on line.
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