Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 13:16:53 EST

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    At 09:54 -0800 2003-12-04, Peter Kirk wrote:

    >Nor does Quark XPress, surely?

    I said, no. They are still playing language police.

    >And what motivation (apart from avoiding anti-monopoly legislation)
    >does Microsoft have for upgrading Office on the Mac if that is going
    >to reduce sales of Windows?

    Nonsense. Microsoft has many Mac OS users. Office has been ported to
    OS X. But Microsoft does not implement OS X's Unicode text engine.

    >If you want a Unicode-enabled office suite for the Mac, look elsewhere.

    Where?

    >Mind you, I'm not sure where, although OpenOffice is getting there.

    Does that run on OS X? I thought it only ran in the X11 shell.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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