From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 22:42:30 EST
On Nov 25, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>> It doesn't work. They seem always to get converted into underscores.
>
> Do the characters actually get converted to underscore characters or
> do they
> simply get displayed with an underscore glyph?
>
They get converted.
>>> 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.
>
> In the MS Windows version of Word it has long been possible to write
> macros to
> input Unicode characters using VBA. Doesn't this work on the Mac
> version?
>
I never tried it, but I'm doubtful. The problem here is that Word on
the Mac currently forces documents to contain no Unicode characters
which cannot be displayed with QuickDraw text.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
jhjenkins@mac.com
http://homepage..mac.com/jhjenkins/
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