Re: Upcoming release and unicode

From: Corentin Cras-Méneur QMVP=5D?= (korventeen_at_NoSpam.mvps.org)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:06:43 -0600

Xochi <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Anyone know if the upcoming release of Word for OS X will be unicode
> savvy?

Completely

Here is what you can read on this page:
http://www.mail-archive.com/unicode@unicode.org/msg21576.html

> Indeed, as many of you have already heard from our public announcement
> last week, my team has indeed been hard at work making Office for
> Macintosh into a Unicode-throughout suite of applications. Following our
> public announcement, we have seen an overwhelmingly positive response from
> our international and multilingual user base concerning our long awaited
> Unicode support. Since much of this is now public information, allow me
> to share it with you as well.
>
>
>
> As noted below, Office 2004 for Macintosh will support the input, display,
> and basic editing of Unicode characters associated with the following
> keyboards (tentative list):
>
>
>
> Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, British, Bulgarian, Canadian,
> Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian,
> Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German,
> Greek, Korean, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian,
> Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Northern Sami,
> Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian-Latin, Slovak,
> Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German,
> Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
>
>
>
> Input of the above languages will also be supported through the following
> system-level Unicode input methods: Unicode Hex Input, US Extended, and
> the Character Palette. Additionally, along with Unicode versions of such
> Roman fonts as Times New Roman and Japanese fonts as MS Mincho/PMincho,
> Office 2004 for Macintosh will deliver vastly improved layout
> compatibility and character fidelity with Office for Windows.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Han-yi

Han-Yi is a program manager at MacBU.

        Corentin 

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