Bug 190398 - Unicode / IPA displays improperly in oowriter. No outline fonts with IPA symbols available.
Summary: Unicode / IPA displays improperly in oowriter. No outline fonts with IPA symb...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openoffice.org
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Caolan McNamara
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-01 21:58 UTC by Craig Pemberton
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-03 09:53:56 UTC
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Editing a document illustrating the bug. (585.15 KB, image/png)
2006-05-01 21:58 UTC, Craig Pemberton
no flags Details
various fonts (24.43 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-05-03 21:14 UTC, Craig Pemberton
no flags Details

Description Craig Pemberton 2006-05-01 21:58:25 UTC
Description of problem:

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) unicode displays with extra space behind
each letter.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.2


How reproducible:

Paste a character.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
2. Scroll down a bit and copy an IPA symbol.
3. Paste it into other text.
  
Actual results:

Extra space behind the symbol. Cursor rests in the proper spot.


Expected results:

Proper spacing.

Comment 1 Craig Pemberton 2006-05-01 21:58:27 UTC
Created attachment 128460 [details]
Editing a document illustrating the bug.

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2006-05-02 07:45:59 UTC
I wonder if this is resolved by test update 2.0.2-5.8.2 for fc5, it sounds a
little like the problem of bug 189761

Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2006-05-03 09:53:56 UTC
Ah I see what's going on now.

Unlike firefox which is primarily for screen display OpenOffice.org is primarily
for creating print documents, so it only sees "outline" fonts, e.g. ttf/afm. So
those IPA characters are not in any ttf/afm font that you have installed, only
in some bitmap font which firefix/mozilla has used as a last ditch glyph
replacement for them but as a bitmap font is a font that OOo doesn't know about
to use for glyph replacement

What you can do to get this working is just install "fonts-japanese" (yum
install fonts-japanese) which include some ttf fonts, one of which (Sazanami
Gothic) has the IPA symbols that you need.

Technically it's not a bug in OOo.

Comment 4 Craig Pemberton 2006-05-03 21:14:20 UTC
Created attachment 128568 [details]
various fonts

Comment 5 Craig Pemberton 2006-05-03 21:16:30 UTC
Sazanami Gothic has the same problem. Also, the IPA symbols come in some of the
standard fonts. Some SIL and Microsoft fonts I installed do work properly.

Some screenshots. Notice that the ipa symbols change occasionally but not always. 


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