From: Deborah Goldsmith (goldsmit@apple.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 13:37:46 EST
Microsoft Office v. 10 for Mac OS X uses the same document format as
Office for Windows, so the documents are indeed stored as Windows.
However, since Office v. 10 uses Apple's obsolete QuickDraw API set for
text rendering, it cannot render text that is not in a Mac OS legacy
character set (e.g., MacRoman, MacJapanese, etc.). There have been APIs
available since Mac OS 8.5 for rendering Unicode text directly, but the
applications Michael Everson mentions are not using them.
In Office v.10, characters it can't render via QuickDraw show up as
underscores. They're still there, but you can't see or edit them.
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts / Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
goldsmit@apple.com
On Dec 4, 2003, at 9:41 AM, Raymond Mercier wrote:
> Is it really the case that characters in Word in OS X are not stored
> as
> Unicode, even though they are so stored in Word in Windows NT (and
> later)
> on
> a PC ?
> If not stored as Unicode on a Mac, then how are they stored ?
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