Re: New MS Mac Office and Unicode?

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 10:16:37 EST

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    On 14/01/2004 06:08, Tom Gewecke wrote:

    >>On 13/01/2004 18:01, Han-Yi Shaw wrote:
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    >>>As noted below, Office 2004 for Macintosh will support the input,
    >>>display, and basic editing of Unicode characters associated with the
    >>>following keyboards (tentative list):
    >>>
    >>>
    >
    >It looks to me like the new Mac Office will probably match the
    >capabilities of the latest Adobe releases, being basically Unicode-savvy
    >but still not able to handle right-to-left scripts like
    >Arabic/Persian/Hebrew, complex scripts like Devanagari/Thai, or anything
    >requiring combining diacritics (including uncomposed Vietnamese). Is that
    >accurate?
    >
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     From what Han-Yi wrote there is no indication of support for
    precomposed Latin and Cyrillic characters used in languages not listed.
    Will they be supported, or not?

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    Peter Kirk
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