Thanks for clarifying that. Now I understand what the developers meant
when they said they need to add the bidi support themselves (I heard
this for versions prior to OS X).
Dave
--- "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 11:48 AM, David Possin wrote:
>
> > There are two letters from MS macBU explaining their side of the
> story,
> > probably not telling all, though. I also read that Mac OS X has
> poor
> > Hebrew support (or do they mean poor bidi support?).
>
> This is patently untrue. Mac has provided bidi support for ages,
> between the Hebrew Language Kit and WorldScript I, and ATSUI. Other
> word processors, most notably Nisus, have supported Hebrew on the
> Mac.
> The problem that the Office team has had is not that the support is
> unavailable, but that it isn't available in a form where it can be
> added easily to the Office code.
>
> ==========
> John H. Jenkins
> jenkins@apple.com
> jhjenkins@mac.com
> http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/
>
>
=====
Dave Possin
Globalization Consultant
www.Welocalize.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales/
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