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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: How can I help?
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-11-21 21:49:07
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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Abdallah Deeb wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > My name is Abdallah Deeb, I am a consultant and a programmer in
> > Lebanon. Along with some friends I am starting a Linux Arabization
> > project that would mean some real work done mostly in the universities
> > we belong to. We'll be using the next release from GTK+ that's supposed
> > to support UNICODE. Mostly our plans are just beginning to form now, \
> > but helping the development of an office suite like yours would be a \
> > great boost.
> > As I already said this is all volunteer work, and we'd really like to \
> > help out. This way maybe we can have a working Arabic version of \
> > KOffice along with the English or otherwise Latin based release ...  \
> > Please do contact us asap...
> 
> Please be aware that KOffice uses Qt-2.x instead of GTK+.
> Qt-2.x already supports unicode since a while. 
> 
> I expext most work has to be done to support right to left writing in
> KOffice in order to support languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

Because of right2left in KWord: I hacked a bit on that this weekend and and
it (KWFormatContext) already works somehow for it. Only I donīt know \
exactly the rules for that, but at least writing + word wrapping from \
right2left worked. I have not committed that and also decided that I will \
continue with this later as I should concentrate now on bugfixing and \
improving details for KRASH.

-- 
Reggie


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