From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 16:54:36 EDT
Hi David,
These are all basically encoded as utf-8 by default, at least on
windows. You can open any file as encoded text. File->Open. Select
"Encoded Text" and then select your file. This could be a HTML file, TXT
file, your grocery list, etc... Don't let windows extensions trip you
up. This is assuming that you want to edit the HTML codes directly.
> 2) I have tried inputting utf-8 - Unicode text (using Keyman 5.0)
> into the file I opened in this manner. No luck at all. I can paste
> utf-8 text that I have prepared on other Unicode compliant software
> (e.g. Word or UltraEdit) and paste it into Abiword, but this is a
> very poor solution.
>
> Can any one tell me whether I should be able to key utf-8 encoded
> Unicode characters directly into Abiword, as one can even with the
> primitive Notepad.
You can do this on Unix. I'm not sure about on Windows, but it's
possible, at least in theory. It should be totally doable because one of
our developers (Andrew Dunbar) prepared "World.abw" on Windows. This
document has a specific text string translated into many different
languages, most languages can't be described in the latin-1 charset.
Another one of our developers (Tomas Frydrych) implemented BiDirectional
abilities in AbiWord (e.g. Hebrew text) and he's tested this on Windows.
Everything seems to work.
Cheers,
-- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
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