Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 75640
Impress: in Chinese Windows, Chinese chars in unrecognised font should use Chinese font
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:08:15 UTC
Windows XP Home, Chinese (Traditional chararcters). OpenOffice Impress 2.0.1, Chinese (Traditional characters). This may be related to: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1990 not solved "nicely". 1. Open a file with Chinese (or CJK) characters not uncognised in Windows, separately in Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress. 2. In Impress, they are displayed using "MS Mincho", which is Japanese-based, and first character cannot find its font. In Microsoft PowerPoint, they are displayed in "SimSun" which is Chinese-based. 3. COMMENT: A user of a Chinese Windows system is more probably to be using Chinese-based CJK characters. A Japanese-based CJK font displays CJK in Japanese style, and in case it encounters an unavailable characters, it will find another substitute font, as in the case of the first character. In a Chinese Windows system, it is better to find a Chinese-based CJK font, so that Chinese characters are displayed properly in Chinese style. Thanks. Qiyao Thanks. Qiyao
Created attachment 43855 [details] font substitution of CJK characters in Chinese Windows
Reassigned.
Also, in Fedora Linux 4, OpenOffice Impress 1.9.104 (which is a version of 2.0 Beta), unrecognised font is displayed as empty space. Thanks. Qiyao
I can't reproduce the bug. Please test it in the latest OOo version (2.2)
Do you mean that you cannot reproduce this problem in 2.0.1 or 2.2? I will check 2.2 when I get hold of it. Here is the detailed description of the problem, in 2.0.1. 1. I wanted to mean "characters in a *font* unavailable in Windows", not "characters unavailable in Windows". So open this attachment, and you have two characters in a *font* unavailable in Windows". 2. In impress, they don't look being in the same font. 2.1 Change both characters to Japanese-based "MS Mincho". The appearance has not changed. It means Impress is displayed this unrecognised font as "MS Mincho". 2.2 Change both characters to Japanese-based "MS Gothic". The second character changes its appearance but the first character does not. It means the first character in not available in this font (neigher MS Mincho not MS Gothic), and is displayed in yet another substituted font. 2.3 Now change both characters to Chinese-based "SimSun". Both characters changed their appearance to look in the same font, and look like how it is displayed in Microsoft Office 2003. So Microsoft Office 2003 is using "SimSun" to display 3. Because it is being run in Chinese OpenOffice in Chinese Windows, users are likely to be using Chinese-based CJK characters (instead of Japanese-based, etc.). So it is advisable to use a Chinese-based CJK font to display unavailable fonts, instead of using Japanese-based CJK font. Thanks. Qiyao
Thanks for the step by step description. Now I can reproduce the bug. Set to new and change the target.
I can reproduce the bug. Please have a look.
If the language-vector of the original font is known and the unicode for which glyph fallback is needed matches is covered by this then then a glyph fallback font with a matching language support should be prefered.
Hi, I think P4 is too low for this issue. I think it would be clearly a P3 if a similar issue would be filed against wrong display of German 'Umlaute' (ä, ö, ü). Best regards Peter
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".