Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

[Deborah Goldsmith]

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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ?