Re: Variant Glyph Display

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 12:27:13 EDT

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    By the way, in looking at the web site James Kass mentioned, I find:

    > Note: I would have preferred to place these characters in the Private Zone
    > in the F0000 range, but Microsoft Word recognises characters in this zone
    > as Chinese, and changes fonts automatically, messing up the text. A major
    > hassle. Hopefully, Microsoft will catch on to the current Unicode
    > encoding, and it won't be a problem anymore to use the Private Zone.

    Can anyone comment on the accuracy/applicability of the above quote? Is
    this only the case with older Word versions? Or what?

    Thanks,
            Rick

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