Subject: Re: Turkish support in abi.
From: Birger Langkjer (birger.langkjer@image.dk)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 16:24:39 CST
Den tir, 14 dec 1999 09:26:22 Robin Turner skrev:
> Husnu Demir wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I newly started using abiword. It is wonderful but lacks of Turkish
> > Language. I want to help on this point. Can somebody point me for a
> > correct startup.
> >
>
> The language is not the problem, as it's quite easy to change the
> messages/dictionary etc. - the real problem (which I assume is
> what you meant) is the character set (...-9) which as far as I
> know Abiword still does not support. There again, I can't get
> Star Office to print Turkish characters either (no Type 1 font)
> so if I want to write in Turkish I need to use MS Word or Lyx.
I read this on linux-utf8@nl.linux.org:
> B&H is currently working on a free Type1 Unicode font family (initially
> only Latin, later may be more) that they plan to donate to XFree86 early
> next year, which should also become very useful for printing UTF-8 text
> files.
I suspect this font is the same as Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows.
It's a nice looking font although for some texts I'd prefer Times or
Bookman.
Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Birger Langkjer
http://members.xoom.com/langkjer
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