From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 18:15:40 EDT
--- Sinitsyn Valentine <Valentine.Sinitsyn@usu.ru>
wrote: > Hi,
>
> it seems that most significant problems of building
> AbiWord@MinGW
> are now solved. At least I'm able to create a
> working (but actually
> not very stable) 'AbiWord.exe' and even
> 'setup_abiword.exe' on my
> Windows 98 & 2000 systems. :-)
>
> But I still have 3 little questions:
>
> 1. MinGW port produces two binaries: AbiWord.exe and
> libAbiWord.dll.
> It is different from MSVC port which produces
> AbiWord.exe only. This
> causes some difficulties, eg. we need have different
> nsis scripts for
> these port (or employ some other tricks). May be it
> is better to link
> AbiWord@MinGW statically?
>
> 2. ru-RU.hash from www.abisource.com doesn't work
> properly with
> compiled version of AbiWord. It correctly highlights
> misspelled words,
> but a list of suggestion which appears on right
> mouse click is
> unreadable. It's probably due to incorrect charset
> conversion
> ('ispell_dictionary_list.xml' has correct encoding
> for ru-RU.hash,
> I've checked this). I even dare to suppose (basing
> on the look of the
> mess I'm getting instead of suggestions) that
> AbiWord fails to
> convert koi8-r to unicode. But! If I choose
> something from that list,
> the word pasted into the editor would be correct and
> quite readable.
Hi Valentine.
For this bug specifically could you please add a bug
report to Bugzilla and attach both the .abw document
and a screenshot with the "mess" suggestions.
Thanks. Andrew Dunbar.
> 3. By default, AbiWord starts in 'Normal window'. I
> prefer to see
> maximized window of the editor. Maybe it is worth to
> be implemented as
> default (as it was in AbiWord 1.0.4 for Windows)?
>
> I was in doubt whether I should post items 2,3 to
> Bugzilla or here so
> sorry if I've made a wrong decision.
>
> Regards,
> Valentine
>
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