persian in office 2004 mac leopard

[Mustapha]

hello
there were few posts about persian language support in office,i find
out that the main problem is in mac osx not office,cause we have this
problem also when we visit persian websites in safari or read docs in
bean.
but can any body tell me that the problem is solved in leopard?

 

[Shay]

I don't know if Mac OS X has 'just' acquired proper RTL support, as I've only been a Mac user since last year, starting with Mac OS X 10.4.7, but at least that far back, RTL support has been spot on as far as the OS is concerned.

The problem you mention:
"Sadly, sales of software to RTL countries are just not high enough to fund a
major effort to support RTL."

is something of an egg-and-chicken paradox, without proper RTL support, sales in these countries will never grow, without high sales, RTL support isn't justified.

If I were inclined to conspiracy (which I'm not), I'd say that since Windows/Office dominates the RTL markets, Microsoft does not have any interest in opening itself up to competition in the OS market by making Office support cross-platform.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Shay,

This topic was addressed briefly by Microsoft at MacWorld today. The
response to a question that was asked indicated that Microsoft is dependent
upon Apple¹s support of RTL languages within the OS combined with a decision
about how much it costs to build that support into the product versus the
anticipated sales increase.

If I were to paraphrase the response it would be something like: We¹ve heard
the requests, we¹ve investigated this possibility, and we¹re thinking about
it.

They said Office 2008 does not have RTL support at this time, but were
unwilling to commit one way or the other about the future of RTL
integration.

-Jim



Quoting from "Shay" <Shay>, in article (e-mail address removed)9absDaxw,

I don't know if Mac OS X has 'just' acquired proper RTL support, as I've only
been a Mac user since last year, starting with Mac OS X 10.4.7, but at least
that far back, RTL support has been spot on as far as the OS is concerned.

The problem you mention:
"Sadly, sales of software to RTL countries are just not high enough to fund a
major effort to support RTL."

is something of an egg-and-chicken paradox, without proper RTL support, sales
in these countries will never grow, without high sales, RTL support isn't
justified.

If I were inclined to conspiracy (which I'm not), I'd say that since
Windows/Office dominates the RTL markets, Microsoft does not have any interest
in opening itself up to competition in the OS market by making Office support
cross-platform.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[Telecart]

They said Office 2008 does not have RTL support at this time, but were
unwilling to commit one way or the other about the future of RTL
integration.

-Jim

Nor would they, I imagine, as the subject already prompted a consumer
antitrust suit in Israel some years ago.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/17/microsofts_mac_hebrew_snub_prompts/

5 years and two versions of Office for Mac later, still no BiDi
support.

Very frustrating, VERY.