Mac MS Word 98 and Russian

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

>I have been frustrated with Word 98 precisely because it is based on
>Unicode, which is fine for general purposes but lousy for ours.
>Specifically, Unicode doesn't contain accented vowels or exiled characters
>like the jat' or izhitsa.  To my knowledge there is also no Unicode
>standard for Church Slavonic.  This is a case where a growing adoption of
>the industry standard may leave us higher and drier than we were before.

Well, indeed. Incidentally, UNICODE contains jat', thita, etc.; but no
accented vowels.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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