Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 15:39:01 EST

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    I am reposting the following as a reminder of what this list was told
    not long ago from within Microsoft. As I mentioned before, it seems to
    me that Mac Office 2004 promises to relax restrictions on input, but has
    made no mention of changing restrictions on rendering.

    On 25/11/2003 09:51, Peter Constable wrote:

    >>-----Original Message-----
    >>From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
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    >On Behalf
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    >>Of Michael Everson
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    >>Microsoft Office on OS X does not support Unicode.
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    >My understanding is that Word for Mac in MS Office Mac versions since
    >Office 98 have used the same file format as Windows versions -- Word 97
    >and later. That means that Word for Mac can read files containing any
    >Unicode characters. 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.
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    >Peter
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    >Peter Constable
    >Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    >Microsoft Windows Division
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Peter Kirk
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