Foreign fonts (special characters) not shown in word/excel

[Christine Ricken]

Hi!

I work a lot with Hungarian translations at the moment. There are 2
characters that are not shown in office documents (neither 98 nor 2001). The
characters missing are the "o" and "u" with "Doppel-Akut". Their unicodes
are 337 and 369. The characters are shown without any problem on the PC.

We need to put the Hungarian translations into QuarkXpress. Even if I copy
the text out of a PDF the characters are already missing in the clipboard.

Apparently, there is an Office multilanguage kit for Mac that installs the
Arial font completely new so that all characters can be shown. But I can't
find it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Christine

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Chrstine,

It is possible you will find this information in the Office Resource Kit
located here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/resources.aspx?pid=resourcekits&rk=o
fficex>

There's a section "Multiple Language Support in Office"

Office X does not support Unicode fonts. When the next version of Mac office
appears (rumored to be announced at MacWorld next month) I'm sure there will
be lots of new features. If the rumors are correct then it's possible we
might find out about Unicode support (or lack of it) during MacWorld.

Do you have a decent budget? Maybe this is a good reason to go to MacWorld
;-)

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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