From koffice  Fri Apr 20 09:41:02 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:41:02 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Non latin characters in KWord
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On Friday 20 April 2001 10:52, Lukas Tinkl wrote:
> Dne čt 19. duben 2001 15:28 Nicolas Goutte napsal(a):
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I have tested quickly with the current CVS KWord.
> >
> > It seems that CVS KWord still have problems.
> > I am only able to have non-latin1 characters if the font is ISO -10646
> > (Unicode) but does not exist as ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) font (of the same
> > name).
> > As soon as the font exists also in latin1, KWord seems not to be able to
> > use the Unicode font of the same name.
> >
> > Perhaps, someone with time (and ISO-10646 fonts) should test it too and
> > discover if on his system, he has the same or similar problems.
> 
> I have no problems at all using the latest KWord from CVS; although, now that 
> you mention it -- I have my AA enabled, so X and KDE is using these fonts as 
> if they were ISO-10646. 

Yes, this probably helps _a lot_.

> Also other KOffice apps work fine for non-Latin1 characters. Moreover, using 
> Qt version 2.3.0, it's finally possible to use several languages/scripts in 
> one document, though printing such multilingual documents doesn't seem to 
> work yet... Any idea about Qt3? Qt seems to print in the current locale only, 
> ignoring Unicode. (the same happens in all KOffice apps, not only KWord). 

AFAIK it's one of the things that will be possible in Qt 3.

> (see this screenshot: http://web.pinknet.cz/~tinkl/pics/koffice_i18n.png)

Fun :)

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