Issue 26456 - Default font for Installation to be set to a Tamil Free font
Summary: Default font for Installation to be set to a Tamil Free font
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Native-Lang
Classification: NLC
Component: ta (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All Windows 98
: P3 Trivial
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Reported: 2004-03-14 13:18 UTC by mugunth
Modified: 2014-03-20 04:22 UTC (History)
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Description mugunth 2004-03-14 13:18:14 UTC 
While installing tamil Openoffice, the default font is currently set to a non
tamil font. This gives problem in installing Openoffice in Windows98 OS. All the
tamil messages in the User interfaces are not readable. 

To overcome this issue, the default font should be set to a Free TAmil unicode
font like TSCu_Paranar (a GPL licence font) or any other GPLed tamil unicode
font. And the setup exec can first install the font before starting the actual
installation. This will make the installation messages readable.
Comment 1 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:56:09 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Comment 2 Pedro Giffuni 2011-12-01 20:38:36 UTC 
The Apache Software Foundation does not use GPLd software in its releases.
We recommend the Apache License 2 as it is GPL3 compatible but is, in
less restricted for general use.

For the time being all existing GPLd fonts have been removed from the tree
for IP compliance reasons.
Comment 3 Sandhya Sivakumar 2014-03-20 04:22:22 UTC 
This problem has been addressed in Windows vista as most of the important words are in proper Tamil font.The version is 4.1.0 beta.Could as well as close this bug.