Subject: Re: Indic support
From: Arun (am_in_00@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 02:27:03 CDT
> > I would like to be able to see my language
> > Malayalam (from India) in
> > Abiword. Input module is available for gtk1.3 and
> > pango will support the
> > rendering. Will that be enough to see my language in
> > Abiword ?
> Cool to hear from you Arun. We're planning on moving
> to Pango after 1.0 but Malayalam is already possible
So it will take some more time isnt it :( ?
> to some degree on Windows. Last time I tried there
> were many problems with Indic scripts but I'm an
Could you please let me now how the input and
rendering is done.(Pointer to code or API reference will help).
Is it that some support is available with AbiWord already ?
> English speaker and so no expert. If you can even
> start testing and submitting bug reports and other
> feedback on what we need to do to support your
> language
> fully on all platforms - please check it out and let
> us know. We are pretty serious about supporting all
> languages even if we are not language experts our-
> selves (:
Sure, I can help with may be few south indian languages.
BTW i have only GNU/Linux and Free BSD system here.
Regards,
Arun.
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