From: Daniel Glassey (danglassey@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 18:18:49 EDT
I'll need to check it with whoever makes the windows binaries but, if it
is possible, the installer will check if the OS is Win9x and if so it
will install unicows.dll in the same directory. So it shouldn't really
be a problem. And anyone that builds from source can RTFM (er, once we
write it ;) )
Regards,
Daniel
Alan Horkan wrote:
> Is it possible to have unicode enable apps that dont harrass me for
> unicows? I dont use stuff outside of Latin-1.
>
> Not much of an issue really, I already got a load of cryptic messages from
> OpenOffice.org installer and grabbed unicows back then. A good error
> message would be a huge improvement, ie rather than just telling the user
> that unicows.dll is missing, tell them what it is and where abouts to get
> it.
>
> I'm tired, so it is entirely possible that I am not making much sense
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Daniel Glassey wrote:
>
>
>>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:47:55 +0000
>>From: Daniel Glassey <danglassey@ntlworld.com>
>>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>Subject: windows unicode input update
>>
>>Hi guys,
>>I've basically got somewhere now with unicode and windows.
>>
>>In my local tree it can now accept unicode input either from the system
>>(e.g. altering the input language on WinXP) or from things like KeyMan
>>(www.tavultesoft.com) even on non-Unicode OS's like win95.
>>
>>It handles the WM_UNICHAR message so we will finally be able to work
>>with keyman on win9x.
>>
>>However, it still can't input individual unicode codepoints by typing
>>Alt-(type Codepoint on NumPad) e.g. Alt-0-9-4-5 for lower greek alpha.
>>(I think this is bug 4476 so I'll have a look to see if ToAsciiEx is the
>>problem)
>>
>>Note that this does not affect the GUI, so it is not related to bugs
>>1625, 1635. It'll be a lot more work to get a full unicode build since
>>MS uses UTF16 but abi resource strings are ascii.
>>
>>It requires MSLU (bug 3655) so if I can commit this the build
>>instructions will need to be changed to say that you must have
>>unicows.lib either from MS or from libunicows.sf.net
>>
>>Screenshot is of random gibberish using Keyman to input Tengwar
>>(Tolkiens elvish alphabet).
>>
>>I need to clean it up a little before I commit to remove some
>>unnecessary changes because it changes a lot of files.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Daniel
>>
>
>
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