From: David Denton (ddenton@lino.com)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 17:22:57 EDT
Hello Dom,
Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 4:54:36 PM, you wrote:
DL> These are all basically encoded as utf-8 by default, at least on
DL> windows. You can open any file as encoded text. File->Open. Select
DL> "Encoded Text" and then select your file. This could be a HTML file, TXT
DL> file, your grocery list, etc... Don't let windows extensions trip you
DL> up. This is assuming that you want to edit the HTML codes directly.
The problem I have is that when you go to open a file, the files do
not even show in the dialogue box (if you select the "Encoded Text
.txt .text" option, unless the windows extension is .txt or .text).
>>
>> Can any one tell me whether I should be able to key utf-8 encoded
>> Unicode characters directly into Abiword, as one can even with the
>> primitive Notepad.
DL> You can do this on Unix. I'm not sure about on Windows, but it's
DL> possible, at least in theory. It should be totally doable because one of
DL> our developers (Andrew Dunbar) prepared "World.abw" on Windows. This
DL> document has a specific text string translated into many different
DL> languages, most languages can't be described in the latin-1 charset.
DL> Another one of our developers (Tomas Frydrych) implemented BiDirectional
DL> abilities in AbiWord (e.g. Hebrew text) and he's tested this on Windows.
DL> Everything seems to work.
From the sounds of it, I agree that it should be able to work, but so
far I cannot type in text directly, at least using Keyman. Perhaps
only certain Unicode ranges are permitted.???
Any ideas?
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