Subject: Re: Russian letters in Abiword
From: David Shochat (shochat@acm.org)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 04:26:16 CDT
Sergey Litvinenko wrote:
>
> AbiWord is quite a nice thing, but without the support of russian letters
> it cannot be widely used in russain univercity computer centers.
>
> the problem is that when you try to open a rtf-document, containing
> russian words, the abiWord reports error and shuts down.
>
> also it does not type any russian letters when you switch the keyboard
> layout.
>
> I would be quite happy to receive any information about WYSIWYG editors
> understanding russian fonts under FreeBSD, and particularly about AbiWord
> russian fonts support
>
I'd like to second that, although my request is for general Cyrillic
support. Specifically, I'd like to be able to compose Macedonian, which
uses a few Cyrillic characters which are not in Russian. The ISO8859-5
character encoding supports all Cyrillic languages (including of course
Russian). So does Unicode. There is another popular encoding KOI8-R
which supports only Russian, so I hope Abi doesn't go that route.
-- David
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