Subject: Re: Russian letters in Abiword
From: Martin R. Bartels (kb0vqk@juno.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 23:29:14 CDT
David:
Actually, I don't think ISO8859-5 supports "all" cyrillic languages.
Specifically, it misses Ukranian, and its "ghe with upturn".
There may be other problems with ISO 8859-5, I'm not sure.
---Marty
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 05:26:16 -0400 David Shochat <shochat@acm.org>
writes:
> 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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