Re: Abiword Unicode build on Windows

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Dominique Rochefort <issasamb@gmail.com> wrote:
>  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.

Hi Dominique,
> Is there a procedure available to guide me?
Go through the guidelines given in the page,
http://abiword.com/wiki/Developing_AbiWord_on_Windows_using_Visual_C%2B%2B
to build the code using MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio).
Let us know if you face any issues in following this.

Regards,
Pradeeban.

>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
>> Software Engineer.
>> WSO2 Inc.
>>
>> Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
>
>

-- 
Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
Software Engineer.
WSO2 Inc.
Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/