--- Forwarded Message from John de Szendeffy <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:58:54 -0400
>Subject: Re: #7500.8 Word v.X not Unicode-capable (was: Mellel: word processor
for OS X)
>From: John de Szendeffy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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On Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 04:42  PM, Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I'm not sure exactly what these preference settings do.  They do NOT
> make it possible for me to create or display Unicode test in
> Microsoft Word v.X, even from the Latin Extended A character set.

I wrote last week that Office v.X is not Unicode compliant. The NEXT
version is purported to be, Office X 2004, available May 12, although I
can find no specific information to that effect on the MS site, not
surprisingly.

-John
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