Re: Abiword Unicode build on Windows

  Hi Pradeeban,
Hi Marc,

Thanks for the quick reply!

I am glad to hear that there is already a lot of work done toward the
Abiword Unicode build on WIndows.

Now, the first thing I will need to do is to get the source code and
build it by myself locally.
The code, I can easily get it via SVN without problem.
My computer is running Windows 7.

So the first thing I will need assistance with is how to build the code
to the an Abiword 2.9.0 version.
Is there a procedure available to guide me?

Thanks,

Dominique

Le 2010-10-12 17:46, Kathiravelu Pradeeban a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:28 PM, J.M. Maurer<uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>> Hi Dominique!
>>
>>> My name is Dominique and I am working with ANAFA in Senegal, Africa.
>>> We are translating Abiword into some local african languages in order to
>>> teach neo literates to use a computer.
>> Excellent!
>>
>>> We are facing the problem that the special unicode characters of our
>>> languages are not displayed properly in the Abiword interface on
>>> Windows, and we've been told that is because Abiword on Windows is not a
>>> unicode build.
>> This is the current situation: AbiWord 2.8.x and everything before it,
>> is indeed not a Unicode build.
>>
>> A few months ago we merged all Pradeeban's Unicode work into what will
>> become AbiWord 2.9.0. This will be a development release.
>>
>>> I wanted to know if the project is still alive.
>> Yes, everything is merged into abiword's mainline.
>>
>>> How much work has to be done to achieve the goal of the project?
>>> I would probably be interested to contribute to make this happen.
> great!
> I am glad that you are interested in contributing, and some new hands
> will surely motivate and accelerate the development effort on this. I
> hope to start working on this over the weekends, to fix the remaining
> significant bugs before the next release. In the meantime, please do
> drop me a line here or ping over the irc (#abiword at irc.gnome.org),
> if you need more information or any assistance on this.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Pradeeban.
>
>> The unicode port is not complete yet. In practice this means you will
>> see some dialogs that show "corrupt" strings. We maintain a list of
>> things that still need to be done here:
>>
>> http://abisource.com/wiki/Windows_Unicode_Port
>>
>> My guess is that with a few weeks of volunteer work this could be fixed.
>> But this implies someone needs to actually spend time on it :)
>>
>> We hope to release AbiWord 2.9.0 really soon, even in its incomplete
>> state, so that people can start playing with it.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
> Software Engineer.
> WSO2 Inc.
>
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Received on Thu Oct 14 11:20:55 2010