From: Han-Yi Shaw (hanyis@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 18:11:38 EST
Theoretically the answer is yes as long as there aren't any specific
layout requirements. It's important to make the distinction between
Unicode text rendering and complex script layout. Having the former
doesn't necessarily entail the later. :)
Thanks,
Han-yi
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudson [mailto:tiro@tiro.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:30 PM
To: Han-Yi Shaw
Cc: Peter Kirk; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: New MS Mac Office and Unicode?
At 01:15 PM 1/14/2004, Han-Yi Shaw wrote:
>Similar to Apple's Lucida Grande, many of our updated Office fonts now
>include Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Greek,
>Cyrillic, and Latin Extended Additional characters, etc. For example,
>the version of Times New Roman that shipped with Office X only included
>296 characters. In Office 2004, the same font now has 1,176
characters.
Han-Yi, I think you and Peter are talking past each other. Perhaps a
couple
of examples will clarify things:
If I have a Word document in a LTR script that does not require any
complex
layout for typical text, but which is not on your tentative list of
supported keyboards -- say Ogham or Runic -- using a Unicode encoded OT
font that I can install on Mac OS, will Mac Office correctly display
this
document?
If I make my own keyboard driver using Apple's new XML-based keyboard
tools, will Mac Office recognise this keyboard and allow me to input
Unicode text using it?
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
What was venerated as style was nothing more than
an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
- Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jan 14 2004 - 18:52:18 EST