Subject: Re: adding CP1251 support in AbiWord
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:38:34 CDT
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Alexander Shopov wrote:
Hello,
Nothing needs to be changed AFAIR.
AbiWord is perfectly usable in cp1251 locale as I heard. You just have to
install cp1251 fonts.
Just grab abisuite*.rpm from ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/Sisyphus/ or
somewhere around it (use passive ftp for access) - all is done in these
packages (they contain fonts in cp1251).
Best regards,
-Vlad
> Hi guys,
> I successfully installed Abiword and it opens Cyrillic MS Word 2000/XP
> documents very well.
> That is a great pleasure for me as Open Office is too resource heavy for
> my machine
> Still - there is one problem for Using AbiWord in Bulgaria.
> We use here WINDOWS-CP1251. KOI type encodings are not popular here at
> all. CP1251 is used everywhere - mail, HTML,
> MS Word (95), even plain text. Actually we do not even use recoding
> programs because CP1251 suits us fine.
> CP1251 has some nice typographic characters that we tend to use. (and
> are not present in the popular in Russia KOI8)
> (Nobody is using ISO-8895-5 here, even Java programmers in Bulgaria hate
> it!)
> So I was wondering - can you include support for CP1251 (as UnixFonts
> hints this).
> Usually our locale is bg_BG, when written in full it is bg_BG.CP1251
> Still the proper naming of the fonts is
> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-microsoft-cp1251
> (so the part after the dot in locale is not the same as the proper name
> of the font encoding).
> How are we going to solve that.
> Best regards:
> al_shopov
>
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