From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 02:40:16 EDT
--- Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> wrote: >
Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> schrieb am
> 29.04.02:
> > [...] I want to move the Windows build to a
> > Unicode build so we can pass UCS-2 strings.
>
> Wouldn't that make Abiword incompatible with Windows
> 9x and ME since they hardly support any Unicode
> functions?
Not really. It will make it mostly incompatible with
95 but 98 up should have everything we need. We will
have to test it though to make sure. I propose both
a Unicode build and an ANSI build but shifting the
focus to the Unicode build.
We already have some of these issues anyway since we
currently handle Unicode (or dual) input and display
on our non-Unicode build, but this can only go so far.
The alternatives are:
a) No support for multilingual text in the GUI!
b) Making a dual ANSI/Unicode app like MSWord and MSIE
but anybody who has ever investigated this will
know we absolutely don't have the manpower ):
I think multilanguage support is more important than
Windows 95 support.
Andrew Dunbar.
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