Re: Abiword Unicode build on Windows

Hi Dominique,
We have started working on this, and fixed some issues in two of the
dialogues. Hope we can complete this soon with some work during the
weekends. In the mean time, do tell us how your windows/MSVC build
goes. :)

Thank you.
Regards,
Pradeeban.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:43 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>
> 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/
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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