Subject: Re: do Win32 encoding, IME, etc. changes all Just Work?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 09:04:48 CDT
Just a reminder of this cool sounding patch. Can a Win developer please
check this code and commit it if it's good?
Thanks!
Martin
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> wrote:
> > Historically, most of the i18n and BiDi work has
> > been done in Linux and XP
> > code, and those of us on other platforms have had to
> > sit back and wait,
> > envious.
> >
> > From scanning backwards through the archives, it
> > looks like first Mitchell
> > and now Andrew have been doing a ton of useful work
> > to get Tomas and Vlad's
> > XP work up to speed on Windows as well.
> >
> > Could someone summarize where we currently are on
> > all that? Is everything
> > checked in? Does it all Just Work? If I wanted to
> > try any of this stuff
> > out, how would I test it?
> >
> > If not, where are we currently? What are the next
> > steps?
>
> Well none of my Win32 changes were ever committed.
> I'm
> not sure why. Since my last submission the Encoding
> Manager has changed a little and mine needs changing
> to
> match it. I've been dragged away from Open Source for
> a little paid work and a little vacation so I'm not
> working on it for a week or two more sorry.
>
> I did have all locales working as far as I could tell
> at that time - including the new Win2000 Unicode
> locales. IME input was also working on pre-Windows
> 2000 and on 2000 for the native language but not for
> other languages. I found the solution to this problem
> and had only the implementation to finish before I put
> AbiWord on the back burner.
>
> Having said that, the diffs I posted should pretty
> much work though a new Win32EncodingManager is
> probably needed.
>
> Looking forward to resuming this work. Good luck.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
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