I'm pleased to announce the release of Weft QDA version 0.9.6.

homepage: http://www.pressure.to/qda/
rubyforge: http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/weft-qda/

Weft QDA is an end-user GUI application for the analysis of unstructured 
textual data, such as interview transcripts, written documents and 
fieldnotes. It's intended for use in anthropology, sociology and other 
social sciences and humanities. It is particularly designed to present a 
simple, easy-to-use interface. It is currently available for Windows and 
GNU Linux.

New features and improvements in this release include:

- category names can now be in non-latin scripts, eg Chinese
- coded text is highlighted in document and category windows
- new code review tool to compare coding of multiple categories
- faster coding and rearranging of categories
- interface improvements for Windows & Linux
- updated and expanded documentation
- new installer
- fixed numerous bugs

I'm hoping to release a version 1.0 soon, so bug reports and suggestions 
for enhancements are especially welcome.

Many thanks to end users who have tried the application, and especially 
to the authors and maintainers of the packages upon which Weft QDA is 
built, including wxruby, sqlite-ruby and rubyscript2exe, who have 
continued to offer important with this release. Also thanks to the 
rubyforge hosts - the free services there have made development ten 
times easier! I hate maintaining CVS servers!

alex