Re: Japanese Marketing? <Pine.OSF.4.21.0205250050150.17387-100000@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 10:34:31 EDT

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    On Sat, 25 May 2002, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > >>>>> Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    > > I was wondering you could help us out still further. Could please make us
    > > known to Japanese download sites for Windows users? The equivalent of
    > > http://www.download.com.
    >
    > Windows Forest aka Mado No Mori(http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/) and
    > Vector (http://www.vector.co.jp/) would be candidates. But WF doesn't
    > accept our commision to carry AbWord(only they can choose which
    > software they recommend) and for Vector, we have to make a "author
    > account" for it. Possibly I can request an account as the proxy for
    > AbiSource.
    >

    That is OK. Please do it.

    > > I don't think many Japanese Windows users have anything like the choice of
    > > Word Processors English speakers do. It would be great to get your work
    > > distributed as widely as possible.
    >
    > Yes, AFAIK there is no real free WP. People usually use MS Word or
    > Ichitaro, both of them are proprietary software.
    >
    > But, today I installed AbiWord for Windows 1.0.1 for the first time,
    > and found it is virtually unusable at all on Japanese Windows(I use
    > Windows2000) environment.
    >
    > Menus are nicely localized, but every words in dialogs are blank(I
    > attached a sample screen shot).
    >
    > If it's not known issue, I'll file a bug report later.
    >

    This has not been reported. Please file a bug. I'll CC this email to the
    abiword mailing list.

    > > One last thing, could you also get in touch with some Japanese News
    > > sites/software reviewers and pass on a translated version of our press
    > > release? Of course make it known that AbiWord works for Linux and Windows
    > > in Japanese.
    >
    > Once Slashdot Japan(http://slashdot.jp/) had the 1.0 announce. I'll
    > submit 1.0.2 announce when it comes out. I don't know so much about
    > Windows news sites in Japan, but I'll contact Impress Internet Watch
    > (http://watch.impress.co.jp/) and ASCII24 (http://www.ascii24.com/)
    > anyway.

    Thanks!

    >
    > > The easiest way to do this is to find the email address of Journalist from
    > > a previous artcle and send the them a note explaining our program to
    > > them. Please feel free to make yourself our Japanese spokesman. We (me,
    > > Paul, Dom etc...) would be happy to answer (translated) questions you may
    > > not feel comfortable answering.
    >
    > Sure.
    >

    Thanks again.

    Cheers

    Martin



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