Subject: Re: i18n of abiword -- OS services
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 23:34:00 CST
At 1:31 PM -0800 1/16/00, Paul Rohr wrote:
>At 08:51 AM 1/16/00 -0800, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> 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).
>
>Is that also true for Win95? I'd gotten the impression from Jeff that it
>might be missing some critical APIs (such as ToUnicode, among others).
Win95 has the basic CharPage<->Unicode API's there, no problem!
I didn't list Win95 above for Office2K, because I believe
that Office2K requires Win98 or better.
>Given the amount of mail we get from folks who want Windows 3.1 support, I
>shudder to think how bad we'd be pilloried for not supporting Win95. :-)
Understood. Win95 has all the pieces that AbiWord needs for
Unicode<->CodePage conversions, but it doesn't have some newer
features in terms of fancier text input methods (like direct to
Unicode) and text layout features (which you don't care about anyway
;).
LDR
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