Re: Abiword Unicode build on Windows

  Hi Pradeeban,

GREAT! I could not find this by myself!

I'll check that out, I get back to you if I face some problems folowing
the procedure.
I'll also tell you if I succeed.

Dominique

Le 2010-10-14 09:27, Kathiravelu Pradeeban a écrit :
> 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/
>>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 14 11:31:57 2010