Re: Arabic and other languages

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From: M-Rick (m-rick_at_no-spam.ifrance.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:30:02 +0200

John Tullis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether anybody could shed some light on my problem.
>
> I have an older G3 still running OS 9.2 and Microsoft Office for Mac (98)
> handles Arabic quite well. Albeit, the layout isn't great, but it works.
>
> With the latest and greatest Office for OS X, Arabic doesn't work at all.
> I've tried everything. Is there something I am missing out on ??
>
>
> Regards
>
> John
>

Welcome in the World of Microsoft ... You spent 400 bucks to not be able
to use Arabic ...

You will have to wait office 2010 maybe they will put it ...

No seriously, they are completely stupid, they have implemented Unicode
suport but not right to left writing !
It's simply incredible they are really stupid at Microsoft !

And you have to spend 400 bucks each time for they sotwares and it is
the surprise !

Try NeoOffice, it is not beautiful and very Mac, but arabic is handled
very well !