Issue 12809 - System requirements page needs more info for unicows.dll
Summary: System requirements page needs more info for unicows.dll
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: issues@documentation
QA Contact: issues@documentation
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Reported: 2003-03-29 08:54 UTC by quetschke
Modified: 2003-05-11 19:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description quetschke 2003-03-29 08:54:12 UTC 
In the mailing lists there is quite often the question where to get / what is
unicows.dll.

The <http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs.html> System requirements
page should get the following info added to the windows part:

(stolen from issue 11523)
" The Microsoft Layer for Unicode - unicows.dll - is a runtime
requirement for Windows 95/98/ME (not for NT/2000/XP). The file
"unicows.dll" (versions 1.0.3590.0 or 1.0.3665.0) has to be downloaded
and installed in the system or windows directory (i.e.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM or C:\WINDOWS, respectively). A self-extracting file
is available for download at 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/Redist/1.0/W9XMe/EN-US/unicows.exe.
For technical details see 
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=116287&listName=dev
 and 
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?dcID=515&action=download."
Comment 1 quetschke 2003-05-01 19:21:13 UTC 
Ping!

Sorry to bother you Louis, but this issue is easy to fix, but nobody
responds at issues@documentation.openoffice.org.

I could apply for write access for the www project, but the main
problem that there are some issues that nobody responds to.
Comment 2 lsuarezpotts 2003-05-04 00:05:49 UTC 
hi
Yes, I asked Scott if he'd be agreeable to a co-lead and he said yes.
Volker, fwiw, I immediately added information regarding the unicows to the 
instructions page--more accessed than sysreqs. I'll the below to sysreqs.
louis
Comment 3 quetschke 2003-05-11 19:43:16 UTC 
> Yes, I asked Scott if he'd be agreeable to a co-lead and he said yes.
Sorry Louis, I didn't want to criticize you. I'll continue to have
a look at problems in the mailing lists, but I think my main
contribution to OOo is to keep helping the thing buildable with
Windows compilers. This is, thanks to Microsoft, not always trivial.
Also MSVC 6 is deprecated for OOo 2.0, but OOo 1.1 doesn't build
with .NET yet, that means outside Hamburg environment.

> Volker, fwiw, I immediately added information regarding the unicows
> to the instructions page--more accessed than sysreqs.
Thanks, I close the issue.

Volker
Comment 4 quetschke 2003-05-11 19:43:38 UTC 
close