Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

[Peter Kirk]

I am reposting the following as a reminder of what this list was told 
not long ago from within Microsoft. As I mentioned before, it seems to 
me that Mac Office 2004 promises to relax restrictions on input, but has 
made no mention of changing restrictions on rendering.

On 25/11/2003 09:51, Peter Constable wrote:

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Microsoft Office on OS X does not support Unicode.
   

My understanding is that Word for Mac in MS Office Mac versions since
Office 98 have used the same file format as Windows versions -- Word 97
and later. That means that Word for Mac can read files containing any
Unicode characters. Input and rendering, however, are limited to legacy
codepages supported by the Mac OS. Thus, e.g. you should be able to work
with Chinese text (at least some Chinese characters), but you wouldn't
be able to work with Ethiopic text.
Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division




 



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