Hi everyone :)

The Vietnamese Windows build for OpenOffice.org 2.1 has been blocked by the persistent lack of Unicode support in NSIS, which results in scrambled installer screens:

http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/OpenOffice/anhchup/Nam_06_11/ font.PNG

which in turn resulted in users abandoning OpenOffice.org and trashing the app. :(

We followed up NSIS development, but the developer has no current interest in providing Unicode support.

Luckily, the l10n expertise here at OpenOffice.org has provided a workaround. :)

NSIS _does_ support legacy encodings, so as long as you can convert your installer-screens' precomposed characters to decomposed Unicode, the OpenOffice.org code will provide the appropriate legacy encoding to display it. Here is the same screen, using the converted code:

http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/41942/vi-1.png

Issue 73192 contains the conversion script to apply to your GSI file. I suggest only applying it to files used to create Windows builds, as some systems/software have problems displaying decomposed characters. If we keep all the other builds precomposed, we will minimize the probability of display errors.

Please see these issues for further information:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72905
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73103
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73192

Many thanks to pavel, sb and timar for their help and expertise. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN


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