Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 22:42:30 EST

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    On Nov 25, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Christopher John Fynn wrote:

    >> It doesn't work. They seem always to get converted into underscores.
    >
    > Do the characters actually get converted to underscore characters or
    > do they
    > simply get displayed with an underscore glyph?
    >

    They get converted.

    >>> 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.
    >
    > In the MS Windows version of Word it has long been possible to write
    > macros to
    > input Unicode characters using VBA. Doesn't this work on the Mac
    > version?
    >

    I never tried it, but I'm doubtful. The problem here is that Word on
    the Mac currently forces documents to contain no Unicode characters
    which cannot be displayed with QuickDraw text.

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    John H. Jenkins
    jenkins@apple.com
    jhjenkins@mac.com
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