Description of problem: When using international characters with certain fonts (ie. Luxi Sans), OO displays them in a font which is different than the one currently selected, or displays blank characters. I wasn't able to reproduce this behavior in any other application than OO. Other popular fonts which produce this problem: Bitstream Charter Bitstream Vera Serif Bitstream Vera Sans Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Courier 10 Pitch Luxi Mono Luxi Sans Luxi Serif Utopia Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.1-4 Fedora Core upgraded from 1 to 2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open OOWriter 2. Choose language: 'Polish' 3. Choose font: 'Luxi Sans' 4. Type in Polish characters Actual results: Characters in an other font than the one currently selected, or blank characters. Expected results: Characters in the same font. Additional info: Please see the attached file for a screenshot. My locale is pl_PL, however changing to en_US or pl_PL.UTF-8 did not solve the problem.
Created attachment 100596 [details] Screenshot showing described behavior.
The problem is that the specified fonts don't contain these accented characters. However I think that what could be fixed is that the default fonts for these EE (PL, CZ, HU,...) locales should be changed to something else than Bitstream Vera. I suggest Nimbus family of fonts as these have all required characters and they are even similar to Times and Arial.
In current 1.1.2 versions, PL, CZ, and HU use Nimbus family before they use Luxi fonts... Can you test please? Thanks.
Unfortunately I don't have the resources to test it, so I can't help you out here :(. I solved the problem by copying TTF fonts from my MS Windows installation (but that, of course, is not a very good workaround).
Is this still a problem with the 1.1.2-10.fc2 update in Fedora Core 2?
fix + no response => assume its ok :-), reopen (and attach a sample .sxw that shows the problem if possible) if still broken with latest updates.