From: Han-Yi Shaw
To: Deborah Goldsmith ; Tom Gewecke
Cc: unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: RE: New MS Mac Office and Unicode?
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
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hanyishaw
Program Manager | Word: mac; International Program Manager | Office: mac
Macintosh Business Unit |.Redmond, WA
Microsoft Corporation
