The following is the best workaround i can offer you assuming you dont have permission to change the windows language to American (English). Abiword is designed to run in the same language as windows is running in (and a few more langauges that windows cannot run in). Here is how you set the language to a language other than what windows is using.
Open the windows find program, search for: Abiword.Profile (in windows 98 it is probably in c:\windows\Abisuite\) open Abiword.Profile using notepad/wordpad/any text editor read the instructions carefully. I'm serious, read the instruction really really carefully. for German German (as opposed to swiss german) the language code is de-DE the American English language code is en-US there are ~3 options that will have the value de-DE you need to copy the options from the scheme marked _builtin_ to the scheme marked _custom_ copy them to the custom scheme and then change the bits where it says de-DE to en-US You must change the scheme that is actually currently being used. this is explained in the instructions. this is why you must read the instructions (losts of people dont, including me but i figured it out it just would have been easier if i had read the instructions) I was going to ask what is "the Kim Komando Show" but i assume this is it http://www.komando.com/ Always good to hear people saying nice if somewhat inaccurate things about Abiword. For anyone else wondering here is her very short review http://www.komando.com/shareware_show.asp?showID=2253 Sincerely Alan Horkan Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:24:24 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wrong Language Having received information from "The Kim Komando Show" about the abi word program I downloaded it, but the program is in German. I used USA-1. What is USA-2 and EU? I must explain that I am an American living in Germany and using a German PC with MS 98 second edition I wanted the program in English as it is easier for me to understand than German software. This has never happened before with other downloads. What did I do wrong? Thank you Walter Doberneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
