

Mac OS X 10 can access fonts from several locations.

Mac OS X 10 can also use Mac OS 9 Unicode fonts and Windows Unicode fonts. With Mac OS X 10, Apple has started to provide OpenType fonts (*.otf), and has introduced a new format, Data Fork Suitcase Fonts (*.dfont) that cannot be used on Mac OS 9. Prior to Mac OS X very few applications made use of the Unicode support provided by the operating system, but this situation looks set to change with Mac OS X 10 and there are several text editors and Web browsers that make good use of Unicode. The Macintosh operating system has included Unicode support since version 8.5, allowing applications to see and use characters in both Macintosh and Windows TrueType and OpenType fonts that are outside the 233 characters in the MacRoman character set.
