Issue 59427 - Cordia would be a better choice of default font for Thai in Impress
Summary: Cordia would be a better choice of default font for Thai in Impress
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@l10n
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Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks: 41707 60011
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Reported: 2005-12-16 05:18 UTC by jjc
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Patch for Thai font names config (1.93 KB, patch)
2005-12-26 06:08 UTC, jjc 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description jjc 2005-12-16 05:18:53 UTC 
Cordia would be a better choice for a default font in Thai than Angsana, since

- Cordia is the Thai equivalent of a Sans Serif font
- Angsana is the Thai equivalent of a Serif font
- the default Western font in Impress is Arial, which is a Sans Serif font
Comment 1 jjc 2005-12-26 06:08:13 UTC 
Created attachment 32696 [details]
Patch for Thai font names config
Comment 2 jjc 2005-12-26 06:10:02 UTC 
The above patch also

- makes header font for Writer be Cordia rather than Angsana
- makes font for Calc be Tahoma (see issue 59408)
- adds fallbacks to NECTEC open source Thai fonts
Comment 3 wolframgarten 2006-01-03 12:08:17 UTC 
Reassigned.
Comment 4 lohmaier 2006-01-07 22:10:04 UTC 
localization/internationalization features/enhancements should not be on the
requirements pile... reassigning to l10n, default owner.

Please decide whether changing the font is desireable or not.

To me it is. Having sans-serif for western and serif for thai is not very
straightforward and should be changed.

Regarding "adds fallbacks to NECTEC open source Thai fonts":
I'm not convinced that a fallback should be added in the list of fonts to try
for UI-font, (if it is a real fallback). So when these fonts can be used as a
replacement for other, well-known fonts, then they should be added to the
corresponding sources (I guess somewhere in gsl) so OOo can benefit from that
fallback in regular documents as well.
Comment 5 Martin Hollmichel 2006-01-23 09:06:55 UTC 
reassign for review.
Comment 6 Oliver Specht 2006-01-23 09:39:17 UTC 
->hdu: Any objections?
Comment 7 hdu@apache.org 2006-01-23 10:27:44 UTC 
I have no preferences here so this would be fine by me, but see issue 56145 and
especially the specification mentioned there. Unless the spec gets adjusted to
these new wishes I cannot apply the patch.
Comment 8 hdu@apache.org 2006-04-07 10:57:06 UTC 
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Comment 9 hdu@apache.org 2006-04-07 12:49:54 UTC 
Changed in CWS vclxcu01.
Comment 10 hdu@apache.org 2006-04-13 16:44:36 UTC 
HDU->ES: please verify in CWS vclxcu01
Comment 11 hdu@apache.org 2006-04-13 16:45:18 UTC 
.
Comment 12 hdu@apache.org 2006-04-13 16:46:35 UTC 
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Comment 13 eric.savary 2006-04-18 13:17:53 UTC 
Reassigned

re-open issue and reassign to sba@openoffice.org
Comment 14 eric.savary 2006-04-18 13:18:08 UTC 
reassign to sba@openoffice.org
Comment 15 eric.savary 2006-04-18 13:18:14 UTC 
reset resolution to FIXED
Comment 16 stefan.baltzer 2006-05-02 14:22:55 UTC 
SBA->ES: As discussed, please take over.

re-open issue and reassign to es@openoffice.org
Comment 17 stefan.baltzer 2006-05-02 14:23:03 UTC 
reassign to es@openoffice.org
Comment 18 stefan.baltzer 2006-05-02 14:23:08 UTC 
reset resolution to FIXED
Comment 19 eric.savary 2006-05-04 18:55:51 UTC 
Verified in vclxcu01
Comment 20 hdu@apache.org 2006-05-05 07:46:30 UTC 
Also added CordiaUPC as fallback.
Comment 21 eric.savary 2006-05-11 11:20:11 UTC 
Ok in src680m168