<br>1) New features coming to AbiWord > OLPC Write<br><br>I had an interesting chat with J.M. "Marc" Maurer irc:uwog (AbiWord maintainer) on #sugar on Saturday, he said "new abiword release very close, which should fix a bunch of arabic and other complex script bugs". Asked when this might show up in OLPC Write activity, he said " I will update Abiword's OLPC branch in fedora immediately after I tag the release (probably tonight), from then on, as soon as OLPC wants to ship it. I will update jhbuild as well." as well as "5 big translation updates in 2.6.5: eu-ES, ast-ES, pt-BR, sk-SK, ro-RO"<br>
<br>This sounds very positive. I would encourage anyone with an interest in how Write handles arabic and other complex scripts to keep an eye on the release of AbiWord 2.6.5 and to perform testing of those features as soon it is available. The benefits of improvements in AbiWord will flow swiftly downstream to OLPC in Write, so it is a matter of enlightened self-interest to submit constructive feedback to the AbiWord bug-tracker <br>
<br><a href="http://bugzilla.abisource.com/">http://bugzilla.abisource.com/</a> <br><br>2) Amharic localization help needed<br><br>Marc also asked me to pass along a message to OPC's Amharic localizers. He recently posted to the Sugar list about an urgent need to have a review of the Amharic translations in AbiWord and some additional finishing work on that translation.<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-November/010083.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-November/010083.html</a><br><br>>Hi all,<br>><br>>Could any Amharic speaker please have a look a the AbiWord translation<br>
>update attached in the original message[1]? All strings are marked<br>>'fuzzy', which makes me hesitant to commit it.<br>><br>>Any help is very much appreciated,<br>><br>> Marc<br>><br>>[1] <a href="http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2008/Aug/0000.html">http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2008/Aug/0000.html</a><br>
><br>>gzip of POfile<br>><br>><a href="http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2008/Aug/att-0000/am-ET__2nd_copy_.po.gz">http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2008/Aug/att-0000/am-ET__2nd_copy_.po.gz</a><br>
><br><br>If you know any Amharic translators that could help please let them know. Again, the benefits will flow to OLPC in that most of the Write activity's strings can be directly copied from AbiWord's PO files into the OLPC Write PO files.<br>
<br>cjl<br>