tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post5862742779343906705..comments2024-03-26T12:11:00.593-06:00Comments on Multilingual Mac: iWork for iCloud Beta: No RTL or Indic SupportTom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-39686708960626090942013-07-21T15:20:19.973-06:002013-07-21T15:20:19.973-06:00Oops, I stand corrected. iWork does support Indic ...Oops, I stand corrected. iWork does support Indic scripts, but <b>only</b> for Apple-coded AAT fonts, not widely-available (and excellent) OpenType fonts like Sanskrit2003 and Tibetan Machine Uni. <br /><br />Hadn't actually tried it myself, just remembered from a discussion on Tony Duff's Yahoo list (now defunct) a couple years ago, where I learned that support for OpenType features mustHandyMacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-9493656650521771152013-07-21T14:11:19.421-06:002013-07-21T14:11:19.421-06:00@HandyMac OS X and iOS iWork has beautiful suppor...@HandyMac OS X and iOS iWork has beautiful support for Indic scripts and just buggy support for RTL. iWork for iCloud beta is much, much worse for both of these, an embarrassment I think.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-3825137546668540182013-07-21T12:51:13.032-06:002013-07-21T12:51:13.032-06:00As you've noted before, this only repeats the ...As you've noted before, this only repeats the same lacks in the other versions of iWork. It also continues a tradition from the classic Mac OS, where Apple's Hebrew, Arabic and Indic Language Kits worked fine with SimpleText, but not with AppleWorks. TextEdit has superior text handling to Pages in other ways also. I guess they made Pages look pretty and that was enough; no time to bother HandyMacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-200656174148228832013-07-21T10:24:16.526-06:002013-07-21T10:24:16.526-06:00Firefox is a little better than Safari but still t...Firefox is a little better than Safari but still totally broken. Chrome I think is same as Safari. Don't know about IE.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-37559317736411609732013-07-21T09:43:33.579-06:002013-07-21T09:43:33.579-06:00Did you try in different browsers. They hinted tha...Did you try in different browsers. They hinted that Safari would work "best", but it is possible that text rendering is done in different ways in Chrome, Firefox or IE.Magnus Lewanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928234553753330696noreply@blogger.com