Re: AbiWord Portable 2.6 on Hold Due to Bug 11501

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 11:55:59 CEST

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 09:43 +0200, Martin Srebotnjak wrote:
> Just to let you know, John,
>
> AbiWord 2.6 on Windows has a bug in displaying e with caron (and maybe
> some other eastern european characters) in the menus (it works
> properly in the top menu title - File, ...., Help, but all other menu
> choices under those titles have this problem. Instead e with grave (or
> acute, I am not sure) is displayed, a character we do not have in our
> alphabet. C with caron is properly displayed in the dialogs. It must
> be a menu codepage issue of menu font issue.
>
> This isn't working for Slovenian, but probably other Eastern European
> languages have the same probem, maybe even with other special
> characters that Slovenian doesn't use - Croatian, Czech, Polish,
> Slovak, Serbian, etc. Users from those languages should double check
> the status of their menu items!

Could you file a bugreport about this at bugzilla.abisource.com? A
screenshot would be helpful to attach as well :)

Thanks!
  Marc

> If needed I can attach a screenshot.
>
> Lp, m,.
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:41 AM, John T. Haller <abiword@johnhaller.com> wrote:
> >
> > Martin Sevior wrote:
> > > Does this mean AbiWord-2.6 Portable is now available too?
> > >
> > > (We should give you plug in downloads section)
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> >
> > It's being packaged tonight. It's being updated to include language
> > integration with the PortableApps.com Platform (pick German in the
> > PortableApps.com Menu and AbiWord Portable comes up in German) and the
> > ability to install it without the additional languages for English users
> > (getting AbiWord Portable down to as little as 7.74MB). I'll make a
> > post on-list when it's released with the details. :-)
> >
> > And a link from the AbiWord download page would be handy. Other apps we
> > package like KeePass do that as well.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > John
> >
> >
Received on Tue Apr 1 11:56:20 2008

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