From: Daniel Glassey (danglassey@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 09:30:33 EDT
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 2:17 pm, Raphael Finkel wrote:
> The most important blockers, in my view, for the Win32 build are 4754
> and 1314. Together, they make the Win32 build unusable for many
> languages. 4754 is the bug that prevents non-Ascii characters from
> appearing on menus, making internationalization worthless. 1314 is the
> bug that prevents WM_UNICHAR keyboard input from being accepted, making
> it impossible to enter non-Ascii characters into text. If these could
> be fixed, I would finally be able to recommend AbiWord to the
> Yiddish-writing community.
>
> My compiling environment is Unix, so I can't assist in tracking down and
> fixing these problems.
>
> Raphael
Hi,
We can't consider these as blockers (though I would like to ;) ). Changing to
a partial unicode build to solve things like 1314 has been considered (patch
was committed but it broke some input on win98 so it was reverted) but it
unfortunately has to be put back to 2.2 since it is too big a change at this
stage for 2.0.
Changing to a fully unicode build to get menus working (on winnt+ not win9x)
is an even bigger (and preferable) change because the translated strings are
all char*, but unicode windows generally wants them as UCS2.
Unfortunately this means that AbiWord is not going to be fully functional on
win32 for a lot of non-roman users for 2.0, but that is just the way it is.
Regards,
Daniel
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