So, let me just check. In this case, and given suitable fonts, Mac Word 2004 should be able to render correctly text in any language using precomposed Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, indeed all LTR scripts with no composition or complex shaping?I'm glad some folks are reading me correctly. :-) After all, without being Unicode-throughout, I don't see how it'd be possible to support the 303 surrogates in the JIS X0213 standard like we do in Office 2004. :-)
By "Unicode-throughout", we mean that MacOffice 2004 supports Unicode-
input, storage, and rendering. In the past (e.g., MacOffice X), our
apps only accepted characters in older encoding schemes, which then get
converted to their equivalent 16-bit form (in Unicode encoding) for
storage, after which are once again "downgraded" to MacRoman or
MacJapanese before sending them to QuickDraw routines for rendering.
In MacOffice 2004, this convoluted conversion process has been
completely eliminated.
Thanks, Han-yi
If you can confirm this, I will withdraw my negative comments with apologies.
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