From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 17:51:15 EDT
----- Forwarded message from sergei chekanov <chekanov@sh-home.de> -----
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:01 +0200
From: sergei chekanov <chekanov@sh-home.de>
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Subject: international support??
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Hi,
The AbiWord is a good editor, but it's too early to say that
it has international language support, as is announced on
the WEB page.
I would call it like this only if I'll be able to type any other letters
rather than the latin ones. For example, it clearly fails to
accept any russian letters, like KOI8-R, if you would
start to type them (for more simple
programs, like Kwrite, vi, kedit, etc.. international letters work!).
For AbiWord, I've just got 'o' for each letter I type (I'm using SUSE
7.3 with
KDE2).
I understand that I have to find somewhere and
install special fonts, like KOI8-R, but
this is not easy, and you should not expect that all peoples who
are using AbiWord are experts! (I can include KOI8-R under /fonts,
but they are too small if I type them and I cannot increase their size..).
I also know a few Russian sites with KOI8-R and KOI8-RU,
but they do not work with AbiWord 1.0 and require recompilation of the
whole program
So, at present I just use less advanced editors, like vi and emacs, but
which have
true international support. Also, Kword has a perfect international
support.
I would not even mention on the WEB page that AbiWord has
international support.
cheers, Sergei
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