Subject: Re: Hindi/ISCII -- how??
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 23:12:26 CST
Hi David,
Unfortunaley this is only available for windows. Hopefully we can
implement Hindi/ISCII once we port to GTK 2.0
Sorry
Martin
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, David Slocombe wrote:
> I have installed AbiWord 0.9.5 RPM (for Linux/Gnome) and have found that
> Hindi is listed in a dialog as a supported language, and ISCII as a
> supported encoding for importing and exporting. As I am a student of
> Hindi, this got me excited. (And most of my staff are from Bombay and
> would be interested too, especially if the one or two extra characters
> necessary for Marathi are supported too.)
>
> However I cannot find any actual support for Hindi/ISCII in the program,
> nor any mention in the help files.
>
> I downloaded the source and did "find"s on that and did see that there
> was an import and export filter that could be compiled in, but not a
> word on how to turn it on, or whether that was sufficient. No fonts
> either.
>
> I'm betting that someone amongst the developers knows all about this and
> just hasn't got around to talking about it publicly.
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if that person would drop me a line. I
> know this can't be a "hot topic" for most of those reading this list...
>
> Thanks,
>
> david.
>
> David Slocombe
> Exegenix Research Inc.
> Toronto Canada
> www.exegenix.com
>
>
>
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