Re: [tlug] CrossOver Office

[Drew Poulin <poulin@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Q <jq@example.com> writes:

    Jonathan> . . . so if your needs are merely to read
    Jonathan> Japanese-language MS Word documents, you may be covered.
    Jonathan> If you have people who need a localized version of the
    Jonathan> application itself, that may be different.

Unfortunately, I do need the ability to input Japanese in MS Word
docs.  I'm curious to know how CrossOver Office handles this.

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

    Tony> How are AbiWord and Kword with Japanese? Now using
    Tony> OpenOffice. It can display any Japanese MSWord and Excel
    Tony> files thrown at it...as of April 20, that is.

That's good to know.  I haven't tried OpenOffice yet.  Does it allow
Japanese input (e.g., work with kinput2-canna)? 

I just tried a test file containing
1) a brief  table of contents automatically generated from header
styles in MS Word, 2) some symbols from the MS Word Symbol font (e.g.,
the greater-than-or-equal-to and plus-minus symbols), and 3) a
shift-JIS Japanese string.

Neither AbiWord nor Kword displayed any of the above,
although Kword tried harder to display the symbols, producing
open-parens instead.  AbiWord displayed nothing.  I tried starting
Kword with 

XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP kword

and it still displayed nothing for the Japanese, not even mojibake.  I
guess that means that problem is not just s-jis vs. EUC encoding.

    Tony> 1) The trick in StarOffice and OpenOffice is to save the
    Tony> document in the default format first, then reopen it and
    Tony> save it in Mightnot Work format. This is documented in the
    Tony> help files.


I didn't know that.  I've been waiting, hopefully, for StarOffice 6 to
be released.  It will be Asian-language capable, apparently,
although I doubt that it will over come problems like 1) and 2) above,
let alone display more complex embedded graphics properly.
I'll give it and OpenOffice a try, though.

Thanks for the pointers.

Drew Poulin