There's a serie of article about that in The Register site. And as you
can read Office for the Mac never supported Hebrew nor Right to Left.
Bertrand
Microsoft's Mac chief explains Hebrew position
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/26046.html>
Microsoft's Mac Hebrew snub prompts Israeli AntiTrust complaint
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25742.html>
Microsoft's Hebrew, Arabic snub: your pain
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/25808.html>
Apple Israel chief calls for 'Save Hebrew' write-in
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25793.html>
Microsoft Mac boss responds to Hebrew snub
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25896.html>
Mac users to MS: your Right to Left defence is Upside Down
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26000.html>
>There's a debate going on on the Yahoo Hebrew Computing list
>(hebrewcomputing@yahoogroups.com): some people are insisting that
>Office.X for the Mac cannot handle
>Hebrew script, while others are insisting that it can. (I don't recall
>whether those that say it can have indicated that this is with Unicode / a
>standard encoding as opposed to some custom font hack.) At any rate, it's
>rather in need of a definitive answer from an authoritative source -- the
>people that were looking for guidance are only getting more confused.
>
>Can anybody from Apple or from MS's Mac division (is there such a person
>here?) tell me definitively whether any version of Office for the Mac
>supports Hebrew, and, if so, whether this includes pointing or accents
>(te'amim / cantillation marks), and also whether this assumes any
>particular codepage?
>
>
>
>TIA,
>
>- Peter
>
>
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>Peter Constable
>
>Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
>7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
>Tel: +1 972 708 7485
>E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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