In skimming the Pango mailing list recently, I ran across this image of the 
Unicode support for various languages in IE5:

  http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/unicode.gif

For each of 40+ languages, they display a translation of the following 
phrase, which is evidently a slogan for the international Unicode 
conferences:

  "When the world wants to talk, it speaks Unicode"

I've always been interested in compelling ways to keep track of our current 
level of support for various languages, and this seemed like a really cool 
way to do so.  So I:

  - tracked down a few of the UTF8 variants of this document online, 
  - converted the contents to AbiWord, 
  - added language tags (to allow us to test spellcheck), and
  - merged information about ispell dictionaries. 

Thus, if you'd like to see how good a job we're doing so far, load the 
following document:

  abi/test/wp/world.abw

Enjoy!

Paul

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