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.
