From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 22:27:19 EDT
--- Anthony Fok <anthony@thizlinux.com> wrote: > On
Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:41:39AM +0100, Andrew
> Dunbar wrote:
> > We also need to use "native font names" when
> > available.
> > CJK fonts often have CJK names as well as Roman
> names.
> > Note that we want to show the Japanese names of
> > Japanese fonts only when the locale is Japanese
> *and*
> > the font has a Japanese name.
>
> This is a good idea. By the way, OpenOffice.org
> already does something like
> this. Do note, however, that there must be some way
> to store the fontname
> in the document (store them both?), or at least
> AbiWord should be smart
> enough to recognize either the CJK name and English
> name so the document
> would be displayed with the correct font. OOo tends
> to have a problem when
> the same document is opened on different machines
> running different
> locales with characters disappearing for this
> reason.
>
> One kludge around it in OOo is to create font
> aliases so that both the CJK
> name and English name appear in the fontlist. But
> yes, it is a kludge. :-/
>
> Another thing to note is that some TrueType CJK
> fonts are arguably "broken":
> they only have the CJK name; the English name field
> is null.
Oh in this case I would recommend using the English
name in the .abw xml except for fonts that only have
a CJK name. With this knowlege we have to make sure
this field is properly UTF-8 so it can actually take
English and CJK characters. We should really test
with MSWord by creating docs with English/CJK and
CJK-only fonts, saving them in various formats: .doc,
.rtf, .html, and seeing what font names go into the
documents. We certainly have to load anything Word
spits out.
Thanks for the info!
Andrew Dunbar.
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>
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