From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 07:18:23 EST
At 11:20 -0800 2003-11-25, Peter Kirk wrote:
>There has been a long running chorus of complaints about the lack of
>support for Hebrew and Arabic in MS Office on the Mac, which is a
>symptom of the lack of proper Unicode support. Microsoft and Apple
>seem to blame one another. It seems likely that they will both lose
>and the gain will be for U**x and OpenOffice. See for example
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/25808.html.
A related article about Hebrew is at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33365.html
I don't think it's fair to blame one company or another company *too
much* for the low level of Unicode support in applications. They
*all* have a lot of work to do.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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