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[Derek Atkins]

Kent Tong <kent at cpttm.org.mo> writes:

> No, I was just looking at the source of the stable release.
>
> I suppose this issue has been fixed in the latest CVS. Any estimated
> release schedule? Or any plan to fix this issue in v1.8.9? 
>
> I'm the IT manager of the Macau productivity center. We'd like to 
> introduce gnucash to the local Macau community. But Chinese support is 
> essential. We're prepared to allocate a certain budget to make it 
> work. Is there any way that we can help to fix this problem?

It's unclear whether the 1.8 release can EVER really do Chinese.
It's not UTF-8, it's ISO-8859-1.  Indeed, Gnome-1.4 doesn't really
support UTF-8, so it would be challenging to get it working in the
1.8 release.  Unfortunately the g2 release probably wont be available
until late this year.

-derek
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