Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 07:18:23 EST

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    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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