From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 10:34:31 EDT
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >>>>> Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > I was wondering you could help us out still further. Could please make us
> > known to Japanese download sites for Windows users? The equivalent of
> > http://www.download.com.
>
> Windows Forest aka Mado No Mori(http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/) and
> Vector (http://www.vector.co.jp/) would be candidates. But WF doesn't
> accept our commision to carry AbWord(only they can choose which
> software they recommend) and for Vector, we have to make a "author
> account" for it. Possibly I can request an account as the proxy for
> AbiSource.
>
That is OK. Please do it.
> > I don't think many Japanese Windows users have anything like the choice of
> > Word Processors English speakers do. It would be great to get your work
> > distributed as widely as possible.
>
> Yes, AFAIK there is no real free WP. People usually use MS Word or
> Ichitaro, both of them are proprietary software.
>
> But, today I installed AbiWord for Windows 1.0.1 for the first time,
> and found it is virtually unusable at all on Japanese Windows(I use
> Windows2000) environment.
>
> Menus are nicely localized, but every words in dialogs are blank(I
> attached a sample screen shot).
>
> If it's not known issue, I'll file a bug report later.
>
This has not been reported. Please file a bug. I'll CC this email to the
abiword mailing list.
> > One last thing, could you also get in touch with some Japanese News
> > sites/software reviewers and pass on a translated version of our press
> > release? Of course make it known that AbiWord works for Linux and Windows
> > in Japanese.
>
> Once Slashdot Japan(http://slashdot.jp/) had the 1.0 announce. I'll
> submit 1.0.2 announce when it comes out. I don't know so much about
> Windows news sites in Japan, but I'll contact Impress Internet Watch
> (http://watch.impress.co.jp/) and ASCII24 (http://www.ascii24.com/)
> anyway.
Thanks!
>
> > The easiest way to do this is to find the email address of Journalist from
> > a previous artcle and send the them a note explaining our program to
> > them. Please feel free to make yourself our Japanese spokesman. We (me,
> > Paul, Dom etc...) would be happy to answer (translated) questions you may
> > not feel comfortable answering.
>
> Sure.
>
Thanks again.
Cheers
Martin
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