Re: Some language problems in AbiWord (fwd)

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 17:08:10 EST

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    On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 23:00, Martin Sevior wrote:

    > 1. Abiword defaults to the locale it finds in the environment variables,
    > that's good. But when I copy and paste a string, it loses its
    > language setting.
    > The newly pasted text is underlined and its language is set to en_US.
    > (Or to the C locale?) Anyway, when I look at the language setting,
    > it says "English (American)"
    >
    > 2. I attached a small file to show my other problem with fonts.
    > Maybe you should start abiword as "LANG=hu_HU abiword"
    > to be able to see this, I don't know. But the fonts on the screen
    > are not always the same as in print or in print-preview.
    > I mean the special Hungarian chars with "double comma" accents.
    > On the screen, in editing I get oOuU with "hat" instead of the
    > "double comma". In print preview I get them correctly.
    > I saw <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?> in the
    > first line of the attached file. Maybe this encoding should be applied
    > when asking fonts from the X-server... But that is only a minor
    > annoyance.

    According to Dom:
    "there is no LID mapping to hu-HU inside of wv. if you can find the LID
    that maps to hu-HU, that problem is easily solved"

    Hub





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