Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 12/23/03 2:47 PM, jda at jda at his.com wrote:

>>>  For me, as you know, my dream feature is unicode! I think the changes
>>>  in 2.0 look absolutely great, and I know I'll make use of many of
>>>  them. But even if you just added unicode to 1.0 I would have been
>>>  delighted...
>> 
>> Unicode did require from us TOTAL changes in all changes.
>> This was not easy step.
>> 
> 
> Let me restate that:
> 
> I would have been delighted to pay for a 1.0 upgrade that *only*
> included the addition of Unicode. Gladly!

I have understood this

> I get asked about this
> every day by users and potential users. And I have a partnership with
> a company that makes a very popular Unicode-based word processor
> (Mellel, http://www.redlers.com/), but any kind of bundling
> arrangement depends on my app working nicely with Unicode. I'm not
> nagging, I'm just pointing out why this is my "dream" feature.



> BTW, would it be possible to give developers the ability to decide
> what languages to include when they build?

This is possible in theory,
For this you need self download ICU library,
Tune it and compile with GCC.

> Then you wouldn't be put in the position of deciding which to use and have two
> pre-built plugins. And if one of my customers wants Fijian (if that exists) I
> could add that myself without having to go from 3.2 to 8 MB.


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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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