Issue 94438 - Arial french accents incorrect
Summary: Arial french accents incorrect
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: needmoreinfo, oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-09-29 17:53 UTC by geroldr
Modified: 2008-11-05 13:42 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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French à è characters mismapped in Arial font (19.41 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-09-29 17:56 UTC, geroldr 		no flags Details
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Description geroldr 2008-09-29 17:53:57 UTC 
When I try to type with a Swiss French keyboard an invoice the French accents
are not as expected on the keyboard.

I found a workaround by changing the font to Bitstream Vera Sans, which has the
correct mapping and is close to the Arial font in style.

I will try to attach the file but the interface shortly.
Comment 1 geroldr 2008-09-29 17:56:00 UTC 
Created attachment 56905 [details]
French à è characters mismapped in Arial font
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2008-09-30 08:06:25 UTC 
MRU->ES: please have a look ;-)
Comment 3 eric.savary 2008-10-02 12:12:37 UTC 
The accents are ok in your document when opened on Windows.

You say "...changing the font to Bitstream Vera Sans, which has the
correct mapping" so indeed I guess that the Arial you have on your system is defect.

Try to input those characters in a text editor such as Gedit or Kedit using Arial.

Please also try the current version:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1235
Comment 4 geroldr 2008-10-02 13:33:56 UTC 
Hi,

I tried Gedit and the default font shows the french accents correctly.
I then changed the preference to Arial font 12 points. The accents show up
correctly.

This suggests to me the fonts are installed correctly and the mapping is only
incorrect in Openoffice.

I will have to try installing the suggested snapshot on another machine (test)
to be able to compare results with the new 3.0 release candidate 3. 

More later.

Thanks for your efforts.

Gerold
Comment 5 eric.savary 2008-11-05 13:41:56 UTC 
"Worksforme".
Feel free to reopen if this still happens in a current build.
Comment 6 eric.savary 2008-11-05 13:42:21 UTC 
Closed