Bug#280084: openoffice.org: bad font selection for Hebrew interface
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:05:44PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> severity 280084 important
> merge 280084 273783
> thanks
>
> Itai Seggev wrote:
> > 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
>
> Are you *sure* the bugreport against culmus has something to do with
> this bug??
I'm not claiming I understand the causul relationship. Indeed,
OpenOffice's font selection appears to me to be completely
non-deterministic. (As evidenced by the difficulty in reproducing both
these bugs.) However, once I made the change to VCL.xcu, but problems
were fixed. This is not to say that they are the same bug, just that
they are both font related and there might convievably fixed by the
same method.
> > 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 :).
>
> Well, this is a patch against the copy in the deb, not the source one
> but I can change the source anyhow ;)
>
> But why did you just not send a mail to that already existing bugreport
> and tagged it + patch?
Because it seems to me that this is just a workaround. Presumably any
font that OO.o selects, as long as it has Hebrew characters, should
produce a usable interface. I'm just avoiding the issue by the telling
it to load a specific font.
> Merging those two bugs now..
You're the developer, so I'll defer to your judgement.
--
Itai
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