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Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:01 +0200 From: sergei chekanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: international support?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 33 Hi, The AbiWord is a good editor, but it's too early to say that it has international language support, as is announced on the WEB page. I would call it like this only if I'll be able to type any other letters rather than the latin ones. For example, it clearly fails to accept any russian letters, like KOI8-R, if you would start to type them (for more simple programs, like Kwrite, vi, kedit, etc.. international letters work!). For AbiWord, I've just got 'o' for each letter I type (I'm using SUSE 7.3 with KDE2). I understand that I have to find somewhere and install special fonts, like KOI8-R, but this is not easy, and you should not expect that all peoples who are using AbiWord are experts! (I can include KOI8-R under /fonts, but they are too small if I type them and I cannot increase their size..). I also know a few Russian sites with KOI8-R and KOI8-RU, but they do not work with AbiWord 1.0 and require recompilation of the whole program So, at present I just use less advanced editors, like vi and emacs, but which have true international support. Also, Kword has a perfect international support. I would not even mention on the WEB page that AbiWord has international support. cheers, Sergei ----- End forwarded message ----- ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
