Wintel to Mac font question

Kjetil Rå Hauge K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO
Wed Aug 8 19:25:29 UTC 2001


>Does anyone know if there is an Apple font that accurately maps
>Windows diacritics for Central European Latin-based typefaces? When I
>import, for instance, Word documents that have Polish or Czech
>diacritics, these always are lost, either coming through as
>underscores or as other letters. Apple Times New Roman does not map
>correctly to the Windows Times New Roman original that has the
>diacritics (and in which most of these PC documents originated).
>Using  Apple Central European fonts, e.g., Geneva CE, gets some of
the characters but not all of them.

It seems to work all right for me, both with 9.04 at home and 9.1 at
the office, but I should add that my experience is limited to a file
with Polish text that came in and seems to be made in WinWord 9.0.
Apple CE fonts lack SC d with crossbar - is that what you are missing?
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