Shoebox and Unicode

[Heike Bödeker]

At 17:30 08.04.03 -0600, Koontz John E wrote:
>I just heard from Peter Constable at SIL that an impending version of MS
>Word for Windows (I don't know which specific version) is supposed to
>include direct support for the Unicode principle of being able to composed
>characters from sequences of base characters and diacritic characters.

What does he mean by "direct support" actually? Unicode is supported since
Word 97, which is including the "Combining Diacritical Marks" range.

>And, for what it's worth, my understanding is that Red Hat Linux 8
>supports Unicode in some sense, though I mainly know about that in terms
>of the problems it causes for applications that don't yet support Unicode,
>e.g., Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf file viewer).

A word processor with implementations for various OSs incl. UNICes would be
OpenOffice.org.

Best,

Heike