and could only do it on word for mac but not on internet chat forums. i will be watching this space to see if anyone sorted it. i had the same problem with arabic, but can now write in arabic (if i can find my piece of paper that shows where all the letters are!)
Are you having trouble reading and writing Coptic in Mac in general or MS Word (Mac or Windows)? I don't know what "chopped up" means.
If you are talking about unrecognizable characters, the most likely reason is you don't have a unicode font (that supports Coptic) installed. This will happen no matter what operating system you have. First try to get a unicode font (New Athena is the de facto popular font but I think it is ugly. You can download it here. There are other unicode fonts available).
If you need specific help for using Coptic in Mac or Windows, let me know.
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i tried here:
http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php/topic,12148.msg143500.html#msg143500
and could only do it on word for mac but not on internet chat forums.
i will be watching this space to see if anyone sorted it.
i had the same problem with arabic, but can now write in arabic (if i can find my piece of paper that shows where all the letters are!)