Theoretically the answer is yes as long as there aren't any specific layout requirements. It's important to make the distinction between Unicode text rendering and complex script layout. Having the former doesn't necessarily entail the later. :)
Thanks, Han-yi -----Original Message----- From: John Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:30 PM To: Han-Yi Shaw Cc: Peter Kirk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: New MS Mac Office and Unicode? 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_
