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
