Subject: status of Latin-2 languages?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 18:56:52 CST
There's recently been a flutter of interest on the abiword-user list about
using AbiWord for Latin-2 languages:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/00/February/0012.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/00/February/0031.html
I know Henrik has done a lot of great groundwork on this recently, but I
suspect that there's probably still more work to be done for these folks,
such as:
- X input methods (??)
- removing Latin-1 dependencies in the Unix font manager
- charset mapping for missing Unicode characters
As a first step, would someone be willing to summarize what currently does
and doesn't work, so that anyone who's interested in getting this working
knows where to start?
I suspect that only a subset of my old summary of design issues will be
relevant:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0090.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0091.html
In particular, I'm pretty sure that neither of the following apply:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0092.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0093.html
My hope here is that any Latin-2 issues can be resolved fairly easily,
allowing us to then move on to tackling some of the more complex issues
being raised by folks in the recent CJK threads.
Paul
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