Subject: Re: i18n of abiword -- line break algorithms
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 10:51:52 CST
At 4:26 PM +0700 1/16/00, Pruet Boonma wrote:
>Quoting Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>:
>
>> At 03:36 PM 1/14/00 -0800, Leonard Rosenthol
>wrote:
>> > One thing you might want to think about
>here is taking
>> >advantage of platform-centric services for this
>kind of thing.
>> >Windows and MacOS (and BeOS, I believe) all
>provide API routines for
>> >determining word & line breaking for a given
>text run in a particular
>> >language/code page. I don\'t know if Unix
>offers the same...
>
>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.
Office97 wasn't fully multi-lingual (ie. it didn't call the
proper OS routines when it should have). Office2000 no longer has
that problem - the "stock English" version will work on whatever
localized OS platform you have (Win98, NT, NT2000).
>If it build in XP so we have one solution for all
>platform and I think that it should be easier to
>maintain it.
>
However that would only give us support for the specific
languages that someone is willing to put the effort into (like
yourself for Thai), while using OS services would give us support for
ANY localized version of that particular OS.
Leonard
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