Hello, On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:51, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:12, Robin Turner wrote: > > 1. A fully featured office suite compatible with the dreaded MS Office. > > OpenOffice is pretty much on track there. > > I think this is probably true for most users who work exclusively in one > European language. But for those of us whose work requires dealing with > multi-language texts, unfortunately, OpenOffice (along with the Linux > platform as a whole, along with its apps) is still in the Dark Ages > compared to the international language support MS began to offer with > Win/Office2000. Trying to run Mandrake with either Gnome or KDE and do > Asian language input and display an array of international fonts in any > kind of application (except for Mozilla) is still a hopeless enterprise, > and I never see improvements in version upgrades.
Probably we don't use the same Mandrake 8.2 ??? As for my experience, I do see improvements in every version. Ex: 8.0: install in Japanese didn't work without setting a memory parameter at boot time -> I gave up. 8.1: installed fine, but the menus were all garbage characters, and kinput was not installed by the japanese installer and had to be added afterwards. -> I managed to get it work well, thanks to Pablo and a few other persons. 8.2: Apparently works out of the box. The menus are well displayed. I didn't try to write Japanese yet, but as I reported the kinput issue in 8.1, I guess it should be fixed. Since I am at it, there is a bug at logout. The small window asking "reboot / shutdown / ??? " displays garbage. I have been able to use Mandrake in Japanese since 8.1, and I write most of my mail in Japanese with kmail. By the way, I don't do any special settings to do that. Every time, I save my data on a CDROM, and I perform a clean install, just to verify that it works out of the box. Basically, I don't even follow the installer instructions. I press "enter" everywhere except for installation language selection and area / network setup. In 8.1. there were further settings to get menus working, but for 8.2, Pablo & co made a great job. No extra settings. > Chuck Pascal
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