Bug#280084: openoffice.org: bad font selection for Hebrew interface
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2dfsg1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: l10n, patch
The current VCL.xcu file requests Hebrew fonts which uncommon on UN*X systems.
This seems to result in at least two bugs which render the Hebrew interface
essentially unusable. See bugs 273783 and 269152. As most Hebrew users
have the culmus fonts installed, it seems sensible to request a culmus
font for the UI (and possibly other Hebrew elements). The attached patch
selects the Ellinia CLM font, which has been reported to work well by
several users (including the submitter :).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8cavy1
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openof 0.23.0 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2dfsg1-1 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [ope 1.1.2dfsg1-1 English (US) language package for
ii openoffice.org-l10n-he [ope 1.1.2dfsg1-1 Hebrew language package for OpenOf
ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2dfsg1-1 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
-- no debconf information
--- VCL.xcu 2004-10-29 18:59:54.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu 2004-11-06 20:43:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
</node>
<node oor:name="he" oor:op="replace">
<prop oor:name="UI_SANS" oor:op="replace" oor:type="xs:string">
- <value>Tahoma;Raanana;Lucidasans;Lucida Sans;Supplement;Andale Sans UI;Arial Unicode MS;Lucida Sans Unicode;Interface User;WarpSans;Geneva;MS Sans Serif;Helv;Dialog;Albany;Lucida;Helvetica;Charcoal;Chicago;Arial;Helmet;Interface System;Sans Serif</value>
+ <value>Ellinia CLM; Tahoma;Raanana;Lucidasans;Lucida Sans;Supplement;Andale Sans UI;Arial Unicode MS;Lucida Sans Unicode;Interface User;WarpSans;Geneva;MS Sans Serif;Helv;Dialog;Albany;Lucida;Helvetica;Charcoal;Chicago;Arial;Helmet;Interface System;Sans Serif</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="SANS_UNICODE" oor:op="replace" oor:type="xs:string">
<value>Tahoma;Raanana;Lucidasans;Lucida Sans;Arial Unicode MS;Lucida Sans Unicode;clearlyU;Albany;Arial;Helvetica;Lucida;Geneva;Helmet;SansSerif</value>
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