Re: Locales and OpenOffice.
>From Vegard Munthe on Friday, 2005-03-04 at 20:15:48 +0100:
>
> I'll probably try OpenOffice mailinglists if no-one here can help, but
> heres a shot:
>
> I have installed the locale ti_ER.UTF-8 on my debian-edu system (sarge),
> and it works somewhat.
>
> In console I get a bit funky characters, date gives:
>
> "á??á?á?¢á?¡ á??á??á?¢á?µ 4 á??á??á??á?² 7:14:28 á?µá??á? á?°á??á?µ
> CET 2005 á??/á??"
>
> My fedora core 3 dist shows the right character (Tigrigna), so I'm
> guessing I'm missing a font or similar. Anyone have ideas?
I know that to get correct fonts in Lithuanian, Latvian, and Russian,
you need the ttf-freefont package. The following three fonts work well:
Freesans
Freemono
Freeserif
> Further I start oowriter, and on my Fedora Core 3 system I get good
> behaviour except the font is invisible... I can cut'n'past this invisible
> font onto the console to get the right Tigrigna characters. I'm guessing
> I'm missing a font here as well... any ideas?
Again, I can't be sure it will work in your case, but in dealing with
the aforementioned languages, I have observerd that cut and paste often
has its own preferred font---or maybe it takes the font given by the
source text? If you can figure out what this font is, you can change it
(via a font substitution Tools -> OOo -> Fonts) to one of the three
fonts mentioned above, and it should work. In case of doubt, change all
of the common fonts (Helvetica, Times New Roman etc.) to one of the
three listed above.
The information above completely describes my knowledge of this topic,
so if you have more elaborate problems, I cannot help . . . ;-)
Conrad
PS For a list of available fonts, you might try: dpkg -l '*ttf*' '*font*'
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