There has been a long running chorus of complaints about the lack of support for Hebrew and Arabic in MS Office on the Mac, which is a symptom of the lack of proper Unicode support. Microsoft and Apple seem to blame one another. It seems likely that they will both lose and the gain will be for U**x and OpenOffice. See for example http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/25808.html.
A related article about Hebrew is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33365.html
I don't think it's fair to blame one company or another company *too much* for the low level of Unicode support in applications. They *all* have a lot of work to do.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
