Subject: Re: spellcheck suggestions problem
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 16:27:31 CDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
wrote: >
> When a mispelled word is in a language that requires
> a different
> charset than that of the current locale, the
> spellchecker
> suggestions displayed in the context menu are
> printed as giberish.
> The reason for this is that all AW menus are drawn
> using 8-bit
> strings; this is probably OK for everything but the
> spellchecker
> suggetions.
>
> I think that in environments that support Unicode
> (e.g win, Unix utf-
> 8 locale), we should either draw all our menus using
> Unicode, or,
> we should at least make the spellchecker context
> menu a special
> case.
I had a lot of this stuff working on Win32 in a large
patch I sent to Dom and others a few months ago just
before I left AbiWord to travel the world.
In general, almost everything needs to be Unicodized.
Andrew Dunbar.
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