Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17037
OpenOffice 1.1 RC incorrectly displays some characters from non-latin1 charset in UI
Last modified: 2004-08-06 15:24:30 UTC
I noticed, that OpenOffice 1.1 RC incorrectly displays some characters from ISO-8859-13 charset in UI. For example I entered my name, surname, etc. during installation and all characters were displayed correctly in OOo 1.1 installation program, but when I went to "Tools"->"Options"->"OpenOffice.org"->"User Data" some characters were displayed as small rectangles :( Same is in other UI places, for example in File->Open or File->"Save As" dialogs - if filename contains some symbols from ISO-8859-13 charset (for example Aogonek) this character is displayed as rectangle :( I have OOo 1.0.2 installed on same computer and in this version all non-latin1 symbols are dispayed correctly in UI. I'm attaching screenshot with "Tools"->"Options" dialogs of OOo 1.1 RC (on top of the screenshot) and OOo 1.0.2 (on bottom) after a little research I found, that OOo 1.1 can display non-latin1 symbols correcly only if I turn on checkbox "Use system font for user interface" in "Tools"->"Options"->"OpenOffice.org"->"Accessibility" dialog. I think, that OOo 1.1 should use system font for user interface as default - system font always is better for users, because this font always contain needed symbols.
Created attachment 7815 [details] "Tools"->"Options" dialogs of OOo 1.1 RC (on top of the screenshot) and OOo 1.0.2 (on bottom)
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Reassigned to Ulf.
> "Use system font for user interface" @egle: you've found a nice little feature of OOo 1.1. Unfortunately this only works with GNOME 2.0 (and above). That's probably the reason why we didn't make it the default yet. But we are also thinking of it. And yes, we already have "Requests For Enhancements" regarding this topic. But the proper solution is still to to find a suitable GUI font. And this aspect is basically duplicate to issue 16527. What's currently missing is a Lithuanian paragraph in <OOo1.1_root_dir>/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu. Without it the fontfallback mechanism works the same as for an english version (default). Which should work in general, but maybe needs some finetuning for a specific language area. This is usually done by the local OOo user groups. If there is one for Lithuania, or you are already part of one pls. make suggestions for a patch of the above mentioned VCL.xcu file. Refer to issue 15238 for details in VCL.xcu and what's already done by different OOo users groups. Changing component to 'GSL'.
Is someone still interested in this? If so, could you point me to the mentioned lithuanian OO.o 1.1 verison. I only found an 1.0.3 which doesn't run anymore on current Linux distris.
Regarding target 'OO.o 2.0' I consider this task to be fixed, as current OO.o 680s builds already make use of the fontconfig provided desktop font.
Closing fixed issue.