[GSoC] Porting Abiword for Windows to Unicode

Hi,
As you all know, Abiword for windows is currently an ANSI application.
The advantages of the Unicode applications are obvious, and the
unicode applications perform effectively as globalized applications.
Hence this year "Porting Abiword for Windows to Unicode"[1] has been
chosen as a student project in the Google Summer of Codes program, and
I am working on that project, mentored by Dominic Lachowicz.

The initial efforts were taken by Jordi Mas on this project,[2] where
he was porting the application to have both the Unicode and ANSI
builds separately, using _T macros. Since Windows 9x support has been
dropped for the 2.6.* and the newer versions of Abiword, there is,
obviously no reason to keep supporting ANSI builds, and this project
will have only the Unicode build, using the W version of the win32
APIs.[3]

Pls feel free to reply to this thread if you have anything to clarify.
I will update this thread after a considerable progress on this project.

Thank you.
Regards.
Pradeeban.

[1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Port_AbiWord_for_Windows_to_Unicode
[2] http://abiword.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2007/Apr/0031.html
[3] http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2009/Mar/0062.html

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Pradeeban.
University of Moratuwa.
[06CSE]
http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/