Subject: Re: i18n of abiword -- line break algorithms
From: Richard Jefts (babs@cs.jhu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 03:33:12 CST
> I don\'t sure that which level of Thai support in OS
> like Windows. Yes we have Win95/98ThaiEdition
> here but we have to had MSOffice97ThaiEdition too.
> If Win95/98 is fully support Thai why have to
> customize MSOffice to support Thai too. It mean
> that Win95/98 support Thai \"but\" you have to
> modify your program to make it support Thai (like
> change from ReadKBD() to Thai_ReadKBD()
> instead)
>
If abstracted correctly at the OS level (i have know idea how windows does
it), this isn't necessarily true. You still have to have different
images/text for the different languauges, thus a separate
MSOffice97ThaiEdition, but conceivably the same code.
richie
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Sun Jan 16 2000 - 03:33:27 CST