At 01:15 PM 1/14/2004, Han-Yi Shaw wrote:

Similar to Apple's Lucida Grande, many of our updated Office fonts now
include Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Greek,
Cyrillic, and Latin Extended Additional characters, etc.   For example,
the version of Times New Roman that shipped with Office X only included
296 characters.  In Office 2004, the same font now has 1,176 characters.

Han-Yi, I think you and Peter are talking past each other. Perhaps a couple of examples will clarify things:


If I have a Word document in a LTR script that does not require any complex layout for typical text, but which is not on your tentative list of supported keyboards -- say Ogham or Runic -- using a Unicode encoded OT font that I can install on Mac OS, will Mac Office correctly display this document?

If I make my own keyboard driver using Apple's new XML-based keyboard tools, will Mac Office recognise this keyboard and allow me to input Unicode text using it?

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks          www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC           [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What was venerated as style  was nothing more than
an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
               - Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_




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