--- Savant shanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Developers, > I went through the list of available languages in > AbiWord but couldn't find my language. I find > AbiWord > to be an excellent word processor and want to > include > my language support into it. > Please tell me how to start with it. Also I see > in > "Set Language" options 'Hindi' as one of the > language > but when I choose that an error comes up 'Some > dictionary cannot be opened'. > Please reply soon.
I'm one of the AbiWord "language guys" so I'll try to help. There's a few places where languages are integrated into AbiWord. The most basic place is the "document language" which usually comes from your computer's locale setting but can be overriden for any section of a document by the "Set Language" option. The error you see is because Abi does on-the-fly spellchecking but we have no spellchecking dictionary. If somebody can tell us where to find one we will surely use it. Or anybody can create their own if they know how to do so for ispell or pspell, both of which Abi can use. Separate from Abi itself, you will need a keymap or input method for your language. For Hindi I know Windows 2000 and up come with such keymaps and Abi worked with them some months back. You will also need fonts for your language and you will need to know how to set up your OS for these fonts. Windows 2000 and up also come with Hindi fonts but on *nix I bet this is not easy. The final thing I can think of is the ability to render your language's script system. There are four major classes of these: Western, BiDi, CJK, and complex script. Abi's Western script support (English etc) is very good. Our CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) support is quite good but we have issues from time to time. Our BiDi (Hebrew, Arabic, etc) support is being actively worked on by a small dedicated group but I believe Hebrew works better than Arabic. Our complex script support (Thai, Hindi, Indic languages) is not very good. We don't have anybody working on this as far as I know but some of the BiDi work is probably quite useful in this regard. We also intend to/hope to make use of PanGo at some point after Abi 1.0 which should do wonders for complex scripts but that's not any time soon. Hope this helps. I've probably left some things out. What language are you interested in adding? Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
