From: "Dominique Rochefort" <issasamb@gmail.com>
Subject: UTF-8 Windows Support Bug in the interface menus
>
> You told me last February that the bug related to UTF-8 support in the
> interface menus on Windows is scheduled for the 2.9 series.
> This bug is critical for our two langagues "Wolof (wo-SN)" and "Mandinka
> (mnk-SN)".
> Do you have an idea when the first 2.9 version could be released ?
>
> I am really wondering how do langages like Vietnamese could be supported
> in Abiword while the interface menus show completely inconsistent
> strings due to this lack of UTF-8 support.
> That's why I don't know if the problem is really in Abiword. Could it be
> possible only to change the font used for the menus to something like
> "Arial Unicode" for instance.
> Wouldn't it simply just fix the problem? Or is it way more complicated
> than that ?
>
There's not enough people working on Unicode Windows build, so I'm afraid the porting will take considerable amount of time.
In meanwhile, you could use Abiword in Linux virtual machine.
Received on Thu Jun 3 00:30:59 2010
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