Re: [GSoC] Porting Abiword for Windows to Unicode

Hi All,
I have been working with Porting Abiword for Windows to Unicode for
the last 3 months. With the completion of Google Summer of Codes, the
branch[1] has now successfully become a sane unicode only branch for
Windows.

I used Arabic, Tamil, and Croatian languages for testing. Arabic
testing[2] was very much useful in testing the Unicode application.
The ultimate goal of the unicode port is, making Abiword for Windows
run in Unicode only languages, exactly as it runs in Latin based text,
which is now becoming possible. The merge of this branch will fix most
of the 'unicode only languages' bugs of Windows. I am currently fixing
the remaining ports which need further modification.

I would like to thank Dominic Lachowicz for mentoring me in this
project, throughout the summer. I am glad to continue contributing to
Abiword as a committer, which is always an amazing experience.

Thank you.
Regards.
Pradeeban.

[1] - http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/gsoc2009unicode/
[2] - Screenshot - Abiword Windows / Arabic[Unicode] - http://bit.ly/win32arab
[3] - My GSoC Progress -
http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/search/label/gsoc2009unicode

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Kathiravelu
Pradeeban<kk.pradeeban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> As you all know, Abiword for windows is currently an ANSI application.
> The advantages of the Unicode applications are obvious, and the
> unicode applications perform effectively as globalized applications.
> Hence this year "Porting Abiword for Windows to Unicode"[1] has been
> chosen as a student project in the Google Summer of Codes program, and
> I am working on that project, mentored by Dominic Lachowicz.
>
> The initial efforts were taken by Jordi Mas on this project,[2] where
> he was porting the application to have both the Unicode and ANSI
> builds separately, using _T macros. Since Windows 9x support has been
> dropped for the 2.6.* and the newer versions of Abiword, there is,
> obviously no reason to keep supporting ANSI builds, and this project
> will have only the Unicode build, using the W version of the win32
> APIs.[3]
>
> Pls feel free to reply to this thread if you have anything to clarify.
> I will update this thread after a considerable progress on this project.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards.
> Pradeeban.
>
> [1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Port_AbiWord_for_Windows_to_Unicode
> [2] http://abiword.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2007/Apr/0031.html
> [3] http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2009/Mar/0062.html
>
>
>
> --
> Pradeeban.
> University of Moratuwa.
> [06CSE]
> http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
>

-- 
Pradeeban.
University of Moratuwa.
[06CSE]
http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/