I'm glad some folks are reading me correctly. :-) After all, without being Unicode-throughout, I don't see how it'd be possible to support the 303 surrogates in the JIS X0213 standard like we do in Office 2004. :-)
By "Unicode-throughout", we mean that MacOffice 2004 supports Unicode- input, storage, and rendering. In the past (e.g., MacOffice X), our apps only accepted characters in older encoding schemes, which then get converted to their equivalent 16-bit form (in Unicode encoding) for storage, after which are once again "downgraded" to MacRoman or MacJapanese before sending them to QuickDraw routines for rendering. In MacOffice 2004, this convoluted conversion process has been completely eliminated. Thanks, Han-yi -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Perry Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:51 AM To: Peter Kirk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: New MS Mac Office and Unicode? Peter wrote: > [Han-yi Shaw] has not even said that the new version of Word is > "Unicode-based". True, strictly speaking. But he did say: >>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.<< Note the key words: "system-level" and "Unicode Hex Input." AFAIK, Mac software that is not Unicode-based cannot make use of things like the Unicode hex input method. It seems highly unlikely to me that any non-Unicode software would be described in these terms. But we'll have to wait for official confirmation, I suppose. I do remember that when I installed the hex input method, it was available for Unicode-savvy programs like TextEdit and not available when older software was running. David
