Re: Abiword Unicode build on Windows

Note of warning: I THINK i broke the build for the OpenDocument plugin
on Windows. But you should be able to just ignore that build error and
have it run nicely.

  Marc

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 09:31 +0000, Dominique Rochefort wrote:
> 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 Sat Oct 16 14:13:42 2010