From: Han-Yi Shaw (hanyis@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 16:01:54 EST
I'm glad some folks are reading me correctly. :-) After all, without
being Unicode-throughout, I don't see how it'd be possible to support
the 303 surrogates in the JIS X0213 standard like we do in Office 2004.
:-)
By "Unicode-throughout", we mean that MacOffice 2004 supports Unicode-
input, storage, and rendering. In the past (e.g., MacOffice X), our
apps only accepted characters in older encoding schemes, which then get
converted to their equivalent 16-bit form (in Unicode encoding) for
storage, after which are once again "downgraded" to MacRoman or
MacJapanese before sending them to QuickDraw routines for rendering.
In MacOffice 2004, this convoluted conversion process has been
completely eliminated.
Thanks,
Han-yi
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of David Perry
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:51 AM
To: Peter Kirk
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Re: New MS Mac Office and Unicode?
Peter wrote:
> [Han-yi Shaw] has not even said that the new version of Word is
> "Unicode-based".
True, strictly speaking. But he did say:
>>Input of the above languages will also be supported through the
following system-level Unicode input methods: Unicode Hex Input, US
Extended, and the Character Palette.<<
Note the key words: "system-level" and "Unicode Hex Input." AFAIK, Mac
software that is not Unicode-based cannot make use of things like the
Unicode hex input method. It seems highly unlikely to me that any
non-Unicode software would be described in these terms. But we'll have
to wait for official confirmation, I suppose. I do remember that when I
installed the hex input method, it was available for Unicode-savvy
programs like TextEdit and not available when older software was
running.
David
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