Heh. My partner Eric, who uses a Mac, wasted no time in pointing out to me how easily he could do the special characters. :-)
I had a problem with input of some IPA signs in a translation job I had and eventually left that to the printing company... I'm sure they'll find them.
Me, I'm slowly transitioning to Ubuntu Linux.
Where I am sure you'll find more internationaliz[ed|ation] features than on MSW.
Eric keeps saying that Real Soon Now he'll start using NeoOffice, but he's having too much fun playing with all the programs that came with his new Mac (and hacking the Unix bits).
I went through this myself, but I am done now that I see that 95% of what I need to do to get my jobs done can be done from OSX without having to use the Unix/X11 bits.
I am really glad that NeoOffice is offering OOo _as_ a Mac app. Imagine that pretty much all the stuff you get with OSX is available from NO. I am thinking multilingual character input services of course but also OS integration.
You may want to inform your partner that the last NO patches (last week) have updated the Java dependency from 1.3 to 1.4.2, which is the standard on OSX now, and I suspect them to be working on integrating the OOo 1.1.5 code base to NO right now. Once this is done they'll be working on even more integration waiting for the OOo 2.0 stabilization and the OSX/X11 port.
NO is really a great thing for OSX. JC
