RE: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: mjabbar@bangla.net
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 09:26:53 EST

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    But what about devnagri or Bangla.
    Thanks and regards
    Mustafa Jabbar

    Quoting Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>:

    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    > On Behalf
    > > Of Michael Everson
    >
    > > Microsoft Office on OS X does not support Unicode.
    >
    > My understanding is that Word for Mac in MS Office Mac versions since
    > Office 98 have used the same file format as Windows versions -- Word 97
    > and later. That means that Word for Mac can read files containing any
    > Unicode characters. 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.
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >
    > Peter Constable
    > Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    > Microsoft Windows Division
    >
    >
    >

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