Bug 140504
| Summary: | openoffice in el_GR.UTF-8 shows blank or _ menu entries | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ariel T. Glenn <ariel> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | otaylor, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-04-30 13:55:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The only fonts that are included in X.Org X11, are the fonts that X.Org supplies in the upstream X.Org X11 releases. We do not add fonts to X.Org directly, although we do ship additional fonts as part of the OS distribution itself outside of X.Org packaging. Reassigning to distribution component for consideration for future OS releases. If you have knowledge of additional Greek fonts that meet the criteria you'd like to have included in the distribution by default, which are under open source friendly license, or which allow royalty free redistribution including in commercial products, please update the bug report to recommend specific fonts to us for review along with those at the URL you already provided. Thanks for your request. In order to add a font to the distribution, we need more information; see: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2003-August/msg00154.html No response from reporter to request for information. Note that the dejavu-fonts available in Fedora Extras add Greek coverage. There's a large discussion over at bug 170218 about moving dejavu-fonts to Core to add, among other things, Greek support. Marking as duplicate since the real bug here is Greek support. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170218 *** |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; el-GR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: So, I field this against xorg fonts, but really, this is a request to include utf-8 fonts with greek character support. Otherwise, Openoffice is unusable in that locale because the menu entries display as totally blank with a few underscores here and there as teasers... even if I wanted to type docs in English, I couldn't really navigate around the app except with the icons on the toolbar :-( My workaround was to include the FreeFont package: export CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs.org:/cvsroot/freefont co freefont (The savvanah download area has been down for quite some time.) This includes the three fonts FreeSans, FreeSerif, and FreeMono. I recommend excluding FreeMono, as it does not have the correct spacing for use in gnome terminal, among other apps. These fonts are in sfd format; they require fontforge (used to be pfaedit) to convert them to ttf. See fontforge.sourceforge.net. After converting them, I added the directory I put ttf files in to the beginning of the catalogue in /etc/X11/fs/config and to my /etc/fonts/local.conf, restarted font server and X, and openoffice worked fine, with the menu now readable and with freefonts showing up in the list of fonts available for text use for typing as well. Obviously you'll want to put them in the system-wide font config, not local.conf. These fonts are not perfect, but they are better than the alternative: no fonts that work! Thanks. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC3 outa the box 2.Set system locale as el_GR.UTF-8 3. start oowriter and look at blank menu entries.