Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.1

Post by **admin** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:02 pm

Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.1 with support for Unicode is available for betatesting.

maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:34 pm

After I got the mailing list notification, I clicked on the link, and got this:
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Sorry but no beta version of Atlantis is currently available for testing.

Please consider subscribing to the Atlantis Betatesting Mailing List. You will be informed about any new beta version of Atlantis and related news.
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I get the same from the link in this thread. I tried in two different browsers, one that I had never visited the link before in, to rule out cacheing problems.

Post by **admin** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:09 pm

It is not the problem with cacheing. We have switched to a new IP two days ago. It is strange that your ISP has not picked up the updated information yet. Please just come later. Or try the following URL:

http://64.27.18.82/en/beta/index.html

maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:15 pm

admin wrote:
http://64.27.18.82/en/beta/index.html

Thanks. That's working!

Post by **admin** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:16 pm

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maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:19 pm

Sorry! Fixed now.

Laren · Post by **Laren** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:33 pm

Man, that Unicode feature is very impressing, congratulation!

Sandman

Agni Varman · Post by **Agni Varman** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:00 pm

sandman wrote:Man, that Unicode feature is very impressing, congratulation!

Sandman

It would be great to support asian keyboards, otherwise it will be not possible to actually type with asian fonts. Another issue is the support for the shaping engins builded in the font files! Arial Unicode uses something like that for indic fonts. You can see the example file below, which if displayed in wordpad seam to be OK, but in Atlantis splits to ligatures!

Is there any hope to fix it in the future alpha version ???

maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:14 pm

Agni Varman wrote:
sandman wrote:Man, that Unicode feature is very impressing, congratulation!

Sandman
It would be great to support asian keyboards, otherwise it will be not possible to actually type with asian fonts. Another issue is the support for the shaping engins builded in the font files! Arial Unicode uses something like that for indic fonts. You can see the example file below, which if displayed in wordpad seam to be OK, but in Atlantis splits to ligatures!

Jii haaN. Mujhko bhii devanagari ki zarUrat hai.

Post by **admin** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:51 pm

Agni Varman wrote:It would be great to support asian keyboards, otherwise it will be not possible to actually type with asian fonts. Another issue is the support for the shaping engins builded in the font files! Arial Unicode uses something like that for indic fonts. You can see the example file below, which if displayed in wordpad seam to be OK, but in Atlantis splits to ligatures!

We are sorry but the present version of Atlantis does not support Devanagari and similar Asian scripts.

maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:55 pm

admin wrote: We are sorry but the present version of Atlantis does not support Devanagari and similar Asian scripts.

Since this is obviously the case, perhaps a more honest wording is needed for the page which currently makes the following, patently exaggerated, claim:

So now Atlantis can be used to view, create, or modify documents including text in Asian languages, or in any other languages that previously could not be represented through the old 8-bit ANSI character codings. For example, you can open, view, print, or edit documents written partly or entirely in Japanese or Chinese. You can also use the Windows IME mechanism to type Asian texts in Atlantis. IME stands for Input Method Editor. If you are not familiar with IME yet, please refer to the Windows documentation on installing and using IME.

(e.a.)

Devanagari is a script used to write several "Asian languages", including Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. It's a script used by hundreds of millions of South Asian people. So Atlantis's failure to support it should be reflected in the claims being made for Atlantis by its makers.

maxqnz · Post by **maxqnz** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:05 am

In correcting the misleading impression being given on the betatesting page about Atlantis's ACTUAL (as opposed to advertised) Unicode compatibility, it should be added that there are several images that explicitly mention Devanagari and other Indic or Dravidian scripts, and that show characters from those scripts. Such images certainly give the impression that Atlantis has realUnicode, as opposed to merely a tarted-up display of Western Alphabet characters.

Post by **admin** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:19 am

Thanks for the hints regarding the Atlantis presentation texts. We will certainly take them into account.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:35 am

maxqnz wrote:In correcting the misleading impression being given on the betatesting page about Atlantis's ACTUAL (as opposed to advertised) Unicode compatibility, it should be added that there are several images that explicitly mention Devanagari and other Indic or Dravidian scripts, and that show characters from those scripts. Such images certainly give the impression that Atlantis has realUnicode, as opposed to merely a tarted-up display of Western Alphabet characters.

That's why I have tested it

Thanks for this!

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