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Excel in Mac Complex Script Text is Broken
Complex scripts such as Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam are failing in excel in mac Formula bar, Drop drop list is displaying correctly But all cell view are displaying broken text. Off...
I tested with different machine
1.
Intel based machine, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7
MS office 16.54 (21101001), Excel fails to display text correctly
2.
Apple Silicon based machine, Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1 build: 21A559
MS Office 16.54 (21101001), Excel fails to display text correctly
3.
Apple Silicon based machine, Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1 build: 21A559
MS Office 16.42 (20101102), Excel fails to display text correctly
4.
Apple Silicon based machine, Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1 build: 21A559
MS Office 16.34 (20020900), Excel displays text correctly
5.
Intel based machine, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7
MS office 16.34 (20020900), Excel displays text correctly
So, excel has stopped displaying complex text correctly after 16.34 (20020900), before 16.42 (20101102)
It is not OS dependent, it not processor architecture dependent (x86 vs arm)
However, in version 16.34 (20020900) in Apple Silicon processor,
Text in address bar is broken
But in the cell, text is display correctly
Dropdown menu also displays the text correctly.
So, it is inherently, there is a serious bug in Excel with complex texts. such as Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and other Indic scripts.