Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 16:34:36 EST

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On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Peter Kirk wrote:

> On 25/11/2003 19:42, John Jenkins wrote:
>
>>
>> ...
>> 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.
>>
> Will this change with Office 2004 on the Mac?
>
>

Yes. Apparently not to the extent of supporting characters requiring
bidi or complex layout, but I'm willing to bet it'll even go so far as
supporting surrogates.

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