Fwd: international support??

From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 17:51:15 EDT

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    From: sergei chekanov <chekanov@sh-home.de>
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     Hi,
    The AbiWord is a good editor, but it's too early to say that
    it has international language support, as is announced on
    the WEB page.
     
    I would call it like this only if I'll be able to type any other letters
      rather than the latin ones. For example, it clearly fails to
    accept any russian letters, like KOI8-R, if you would
    start to type them (for more simple
    programs, like Kwrite, vi, kedit, etc.. international letters work!).
    For AbiWord, I've just got 'o' for each letter I type (I'm using SUSE
    7.3 with
    KDE2).

     I understand that I have to find somewhere and
     install special fonts, like KOI8-R, but
     this is not easy, and you should not expect that all peoples who
    are using AbiWord are experts! (I can include KOI8-R under /fonts,
    but they are too small if I type them and I cannot increase their size..).
    I also know a few Russian sites with KOI8-R and KOI8-RU,
    but they do not work with AbiWord 1.0 and require recompilation of the
    whole program
    So, at present I just use less advanced editors, like vi and emacs, but
    which have
    true international support. Also, Kword has a perfect international
    support.

    I would not even mention on the WEB page that AbiWord has
    international support.

    cheers, Sergei

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