From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 17:03:38 EDT
The following is the best workaround i can offer you
assuming you dont have permission to change the windows language to
American (English).
Abiword is designed to run in the same language as windows is running in
(and a few more langauges that windows cannot run in). Here is how you
set the language to a language other than what windows is using.
Open the windows find program, search for:
Abiword.Profile
(in windows 98 it is probably in c:\windows\Abisuite\)
open Abiword.Profile using notepad/wordpad/any text editor
read the instructions carefully.
I'm serious, read the instruction really really carefully.
for German German (as opposed to swiss german) the language code is de-DE
the American English language code is en-US
there are ~3 options that will have the value de-DE
you need to copy the options from the scheme marked _builtin_
to the scheme marked _custom_
copy them to the custom scheme and then change the bits where it says
de-DE to en-US
You must change the scheme that is actually currently being used. this is
explained in the instructions. this is why you must read the instructions
(losts of people dont, including me but i figured it out it just would
have been easier if i had read the instructions)
I was going to ask what is "the Kim Komando Show" but i assume this is it
http://www.komando.com/
Always good to hear people saying nice if somewhat inaccurate things about
Abiword.
For anyone else wondering here is her very short review
http://www.komando.com/shareware_show.asp?showID=2253
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:24:24 EDT
From: WaltHilde1@aol.com
To: owner-abiword-user@abisource.com
Subject: Wrong Language
Having received information from "The Kim Komando Show" about the abi
word
program I downloaded it, but the program is in German. I used USA-1.
What
is
USA-2 and EU?
I must explain that I am an American living in Germany and using a German
PC
with MS 98 second edition I wanted the program in English as it is easier
for me to understand than German software. This has never happened
before
with other downloads. What did I do wrong?
Thank you
Walter Doberneck
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