FORW: Abiword calls for CJK developers
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From: cwhuang@linux.org.tw (Chih-Wei Huang)
Newsgroups: tlug.cle-devel
Subject: Abiword calls for CJK developers
Date: 19 Oct 2000 16:11:28 +0800
Dear Belcon:
Have you solved GB problem of abiword?
You man contact Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
and he may give you a hand.
Cheers,
Subject: Re: commit: i18n megapatch to AW (fwd)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:36:47 +1000 (EST)
From: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
To: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw>
Here is the info and hints from Vlad.
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:52:12 +0500 (SAMST)
From: Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
To: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: Thomas Briggs <tom@sane.com>, abiword-dev@abisource.com
Subject: Re: commit: i18n megapatch to AW
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> Commit:
>
> Vlad's Russian megapatch along with Tom Brigg's fixes to enable the code
> to compile in Windows and merges by me to get things up to date.
I'm very happy that this patch was integrated into official AW's source
so
fast. My thanks to AbiWord Team and especially to Martin and Tom.
> This is an incrediable amount of work which finally allows the Unix
> version of abiword to use non-latin fonts. Hopefully we'll rapidly see
> Chinese, Japanese and Korean versions of Abiword and we can make use of
> our 16 bit internal representation of all text strings.
In fact, multibyte characters won't work out of the box with AW wit
hthis
patch - more hacking is needed. The megapatch makes AW ready for scripts
with
single byte encodings (e.g. various based on cyrillic such as russian,
ukrainian, serbian, and not based on cyrillic - greek, vietnamesse and
probably some others). As for CJK - some additional tweaks are needed.
The
major tweaks are needed to support CJK printing. As for other places - I
think
only cut and paste to/from text will need to be tweaked (since current
EncodingManager assumes single byte symbols). As for importing/exporting
RTF
and word - there are two paths: if word uses unicode (instead of various
other
encodings for CJK) than no tweaks are needed. If it uses some other
encoding -
additional tweaks would be required. I didn't add full support for CJK
since
I'm not familiar with it.
> Vald, can you post step by step instructions on how a CKJ developer can
> add support for her Language?
I think composing this description right now will take a lot of my time
that
I'm lacking. So I suggest the following: let's find CJK developer first,
and I
will describe him what to do and consult fully (I think that searching
for CJK
developer will take some time :). But I repeat - rather big (30K) patch
(not counting translations of UI) will be required to bring AW to full
support
of CJK scripts. So let's search for developer first. I think that a
AbiWord
weekly news should include call for CJK developers, proclaiming that
only
small amount of efforts is needed to add support for CJK scripts to AW.
I hope
a lot of potential CJK developers read Linux Weekly News that reviews AW
weekly news.
> THINGS TO FIX. The columns dialog now looks weird in gtk because of the
> removal of the gtk_set_usize to the drawing area. I'll test the other
> dialogs too.
Hmm, I'm sorry about this. As I remember, I didn't remove _set_usize on
drawing areas of other dialogs (the only other one with drawing area was
font
dialog, but AFAIR I didn't remove _set_usize on it). As for columns
dialog -
does it look that weird? :) Seems the "page" in preview slightly reduced
its
width (tell me if it looks really ugly for you).
> Special thanks to Tom Briggs for downloading the tarball and doing the
> Windows fixes.
>
> Have fun with our significant new feature!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> CVS:
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> CVS:
> CVS: Committing in .
> CVS:
> CVS: Modified Files:
> CVS: af/ev/unix/ev_UnixKeyboard.cpp af/ev/xp/ev_EditBinding.cpp
> CVS: af/gr/xp/gr_Graphics.cpp af/util/xp/ut_string.cpp
> CVS: af/util/xp/ut_string.h af/xap/Makefile af/xap/unix/Makefile
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixApp.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixDlg_FontChooser.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixDlg_Zoom.cpp af/xap/unix/xap_UnixFont.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixFontManager.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixPSGenerate.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixToolbar_Icons.cpp af/xap/xp/Makefile
> CVS: af/xap/xp/xap_App.cpp af/xap/xp/xap_App.h
> CVS: af/xap/xp/xap_Strings.cpp other/spell/newMain.c
> CVS: pkg/common/unix/data/tbz_install.sh
> CVS: pkg/common/unix/data/tgz_install.sh
> CVS: pkg/common/unix/scripts/makewrapper.sh
> CVS: wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixApp.cpp wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixDialog_Columns.cpp
> CVS: wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixDialog_Insert_DateTime.cpp
> CVS: wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixPrefs.cpp wp/ap/xp/ap_Menu_LabelSet.cpp
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_Menu_LabelSet_Languages.h wp/ap/xp/ap_Strings.cpp
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_TB_LabelSet_Languages.h
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_Toolbar_Icons_All.h
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_Toolbar_LabelSet.cpp wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp.cpp
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_AbiWord_1.cpp wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_HTML.cpp
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_LaTeX.cpp wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_RTF.cpp
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_RTF.h
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_RTF_listenerWriteDoc.cpp
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_Text.cpp wp/impexp/xp/ie_imp_AbiWord_1.cpp
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_imp_RTF.cpp wp/impexp/xp/ie_imp_RTF.h
> CVS: wp/impexp/xp/ie_types.h
> wp/main/unix/UnixMain.cpp
The patch to UnixMain.cpp is not necessary for megapatch to function
and
probably should be commented out in production release. But I found it
very
useful for debugging initialization functions of AW (if TELLPID env var
is
defined, AW will tell its pid and will wait for keypress - this
simplifies
attaching to it with gdb).
> CVS: Added Files:
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixEncodingManager.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/unix/xap_UnixEncodingManager.h
> CVS: af/xap/xp/xap_EncodingManager.cpp
> CVS: af/xap/xp/xap_EncodingManager.h
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_Menu_LabelSet_ru-RU.h
> CVS: wp/ap/xp/ap_TB_LabelSet_ru-RU.h
> CVS:
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>
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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