On Sat, 25 May 2002, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > > Hi, > > >>>>> Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
