
Word Processors
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AbiWord
AbiWord, designed to be an alternative to Microso Word, is an open source multilingual
word processing application that is available for Windows, and is included with some
Linux distributions.
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GnomeOce is a soware suite that includes AbiWord as one of its
many applications. One of the goals of AbiWord is for it to become a cross-platform word
processing application.
Haansoft Hangul—Microsoft Windows
e Korean word-processing application called Haanso Hangul (formerly HWP, which
stood for Hangul Word Processor), developed by a company called Haanso (formerly
Hangul & Computer), provides full Korean functionality, but does not require an under-
lying Korean version of the Windows OS.
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Ichitaro—Microsoft Windows
JustSystems’ Ichitaro ( ichitarō) is one of the most widely used Japanese word-
processing applications and is currently available only for Windows.
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It also one of the
rst Japanese word processors that is now completely Unicode-based internally. eir
engineers have eectively insulated the users from ever knowing this.
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One signicant benet of Ichitaro is that it is bundled with ATOK, which is JustSystems’
powerful input method. Ichitaro is also included as part of JUST Suite, which is an appli-
cation suite comparable in functionality to Microso Oce.
KWord
KWord is the frame-based word-processing application that is included ...