Word ’95 enabled automatic font and language switching when the keyboard changed, allowing multilingual text in your document and in several dialogs. This is very important for corporations that have offices around the world. Through new Unicode support, Word 97 makes it even easier to create and display documents which contain text in a variety of Pan European. You can also view documents created in Far East versions of Word in US Word:
When you switch your keyboard, Word is smart about automatically switching to appropriate fonts based on the language you are using. Languages use different code pages to specify alphabetic characters – instead of making users manually change fonts based on language, Word changes them for you. Keyboard switching also triggers language property switching in Word. Proofing tools use the language property to determine which text to check and automatic language property switching ensures that your German text is proofed by the German proofing tools only.
Microsoft has defined a new "Pan-European" character set standard, Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4), that contains 652 characters required in Western, Central, and Eastern European writing systems, and Greek and Turkish. The WGL4 character set covers several major codepages: 1250 for Eastern European languages, 1251 for Cyrillic, 1252 for US English, 1253 for Greek, and 1254 for Turkish. Before WGL4, a user typing characters in English, Cyrillic, and Greek would have to select three different fonts, Times New Roman, Times New Roman Cyrillic, and Times New Roman Greek, in order to access all of the characters. Now, a user can load a single WGL4 font and change codepages as needed. In addition to providing WGL4 versions of common fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial and Courier, Word also provides WGL4 versions of fonts used in its Templates.
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