Subject: Re: The importance of the spellchecking non-English speakingcountries
From: Thomas Briggs (tom@sane.com)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 10:41:30 CST
> First, a subclass of XAP_EncodingManager should be written (its task is
to
> return correct languages ISO code (such as "en"), territory code such as
"US"
> and charset name (such as "ISO-8859-1"). glib in CVS has the code to do
this
> AFAIR, and also tables in xap_EncodingManager.cpp can help with this.
>
> After that 2 things remain:
> * input of text (just get unicode value of the symbol typed and insert
> into the doc)
> * measuring width/drawing
>
> It seems that's all that is needed. (If there are no picularities
> wrt
> handling of CJK under Win*).
Well, I'm in no position to do any of it, but I am relieved to know that
it shouldn't be too huge a project (assuming you have a way/know how to
input CJK text). Thanks for the overview.
-Tom
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