Mac OS 9 is supplied with several Unicode TrueType fonts that contain more characters than you can normally see, Microsoft supplies a Unicode TrueType version of Tahoma with Word 98 and Office 98, and Adobe supplies a Unicode OpenType version of TektonPro with InDesign 1.5. The Web browser Opera 6 can use Unicode resource-fork fonts The WorldText text editor and 2 experimental applications ( MLTE Demo and SUE) have implemented the facility to use Windows Unicode fonts under Mac OS 9. Adobe InDesign can use the extra characters in Macintosh Unicode fonts, but it does not support the keyboard drivers in Apple’s Language Kits, and the only way to enter the extra characters is to use the Insert Characters dialog box, available from the Type menu. Sadly, there are very few applications that are able to access these extra characters. The Macintosh operating system has included Unicode support since version 8.5, and this allows applications to see and use characters in both Macintosh and Windows TrueType fonts that are outside the 233 characters in the MacRoman character set.

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I was wondering if there’s a specific GREP styles order that I should follow or am I missing something so fundamental for it work properly across all 4 languages.

My dilemma is that I can’t have different documents for each country and load their own grep style since the documents share with each other contents. If I change the order of the GREP styles in order for the Chinese or Macau files to work, then the japanese document stops working. The above GREP style works well for Japanese documents but it doesn’t work for the Chinese or Macau documents. For example, china CJK ranges is 4E00–9FD5 I’m using unicode ranges for each language.

The text box on the document is linked to a paragraph style that contains the English font that I would like to use (Arial). For each country, I’ve made 4 different character styles. I have followed the tutorial for dual fonts using GREP styles. I have a few documents that have legal lines for 4 different countries (Japan, China, Macau, and Arabic) The legal line is composed for the most part of english and then the japanese characters, chinese characters etc.

Indesign chinese font styles