Can After Effects read Opentype fonts?

I was given a PSD file that uses a font called Soho Gothic Pro. In Photoshop, the designer toggled on Stylistic Alternatives under the Opentype menu option under Fonts (see picture).
However, I can't seem to find this same option in After Effects. So in AE it appears that the font the designer used isn't available, but in Photoshop it is. Is After Effects unable to read Opentype fonts?
Thanks for your time.

It's very much as Dave said - AE does not support any of the rule-based glyph substitution, the sad excuse behind it being that someone thought we don't need ligatures, table numbers and so on because they "break" with text animator (when half the time people don't even use this, but only basic transforms or effects). *crikey* Well, one can always hope for CS6....
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