Subject: Re: report on status of AW's i18n patch
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 15:52:13 CDT
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> Today I promised that I will post preview of this patch tonight.
> Unfortunately, I didn't complete it yet.
> Things that are already done:
>
> 1) Added ability to input keys with keysyms > 256, with converting of keysym
> values to unicode
> 2) Remappinng of characters from unicode to X Locale for in remapGlyph for
> drawing and printing them.
> 3) Fixed printing. Only single-byte characters are supported.
> 4) Fixed cutting and pasting - pasting to/from other apps works well now.
> 5) Slightly enhanced export to latex by supporting the emitting of
> \usepackage[<LANGUAGE_LIST>]{babel} and \usepackage[<texencoding>]{inputenc}
> 6) Corrected importing of RTFs. The following constucts
> {\f1\froman\fcharset2{\*\fname Symbol;}MT Symbol;}
> in \fonttbl are now supported (i.e. canonical name of the font inside of {})
> These constructs are produced by at least Win95 russian edition. They were
> crashing AW (RTFstate stack underflow).
> 7) RTF import: Added recoding of characters of form "\'e1" from windows
> codepage to unicode.
> With 6) and 7) I was able to import any RTFs I can find/produce by WordPad
> from W95 and by Word2000 (with various output options).
>
> What's missing:
> 8) As you've may noticed I'm having problems with finding out how to export
> unicode characters with value > 0x7f to Word97. I hope that someone will
> suggest solution.
This sounds like an impressive piece of work. Word export is very much
still a work in progress. Leave item 8 for now, tidy up up your code and
submit a patch. Leave TODO comments where you think more work is needed.
Word export is still very much a work in progress. Dom has done almost all
the recent work on that but he is up to his eyeballs in things that need
doing. If you're interested in helping out in that part of the code we
would all be very happy. I'm sure Dom would be amongst the happiest :-)
>
> Notes:
> * As for RTF export (I didn't tweak it at all): exporting to RTF is the only
> way to import anything international from AW into Word97. But Wordpad (and
> probably Word95) doesn't understand characters in form of \uc0\uUUUU
RTF export is the only way for any Language right now :-(
Cheers
Martin
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