Issue 8476 - Asian text, seeking simplest way to make it work
Summary: Asian text, seeking simplest way to make it work
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All Windows ME
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unknown
QA Contact: issues@l10n
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Reported: 2002-10-18 08:12 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2009-01-14 09:29 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2002-10-18 08:12:20 UTC 
Hi,
I've download the current version OO. But I notice I can't input any Chinese 
text. I am using Chinesestar 2.97 for Chinese text input, but nothing appears 
in my document even if I set the font to Ping Ming. I've tried to set the Asian 
text support feature. But I still couldn't see the text. Probably I may have 
set the wrong setup info. I am wondering if you guys have a ready made solution 
like:
1) Which Chinese/Asian text input program that best suite OO?
2) Any steps to do/avoid while setting OO.
3) Which Windows version best suite OO?
4) Any direct documentation to help us user instead of using "issuezilla"?
5) Any printing issues we as a user should watch out for?

Hope U guys could help.
W. Regards
Acyl
Comment 1 acli 2004-01-18 23:14:17 UTC 
OOo receives Chinese characters as Unicode. So, if you have Windows 2000 or
later, you can input Chinese characters without problem.

If you have Windows 95 or 98 (including ME), you'll need a text input program
that can emit Unicode in a way Open Office understands. You'll have to make sure
it emits Unicode, and preferably you should also disable any Chinese output
processing (not select any GB, Big5, or auto mode). If the program has several
ways to "output" characters, you'll need to try all the ways until you can input
Chinese characters. (If you tried all ways and still cannot input, try a
different program.)

NJStar is known to work, but only after configuring it to emit Unicode and
setting Chinese support to none.
Comment 2 pavel 2004-04-10 23:40:22 UTC 
Change the component to l10n.

acyl: Is this still an issue in latest stable version (1.1.1)?
Comment 3 arego 2007-11-15 13:53:47 UTC 
I think this is not a an OpenOffice.org problem. The OS is in charge of the
input, via the selected IME. Installing support for chinese input under Windows
seems to work. In Linux, configuring scim works perfectly, an even scim-tomoe
provides an input pad for drawing a character which is then recognized an can be
included in any OOo application.
Comment 4 petr.dudacek 2009-01-14 09:28:28 UTC 
No activity from the submitter for almost 5 years... closing now.
Comment 5 petr.dudacek 2009-01-14 09:29:59 UTC 
-> closed