Issue 2604 - Cannot read MS Word Documents / Presentations/ Charts having Turkish fonts
Summary: Cannot read MS Word Documents / Presentations/ Charts having Turkish fonts
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P1 (highest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: christof.pintaske
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2001-12-20 18:37 UTC by gorkem
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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3 documents -xls,ppt,doc- having turkish chars and apostrophes (6.89 KB, application/octet-stream)
2002-01-15 20:28 UTC, gorkem 		no flags Details
Rendering of sample.doc with Turkish fonts (81.15 KB, image/png)
2002-05-07 19:05 UTC, cartman 		no flags Details
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Description gorkem 2001-12-20 18:37:01 UTC 
None of the Open Office programs I've downloaded so far was able 
to properly handle Turkish fonts in .doc, .xls and .ppt files.

Instead of Turkish fonts (ISO 8859-9) a question mark appears.

I'm using Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2, SuSE Linux 7.2
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2002-01-15 12:23:43 UTC 
What happens if you re-format the characters to another font? Please comment.
Please attatch one file of each type (.doc, .xls, .ppt - or zip them together first) and 
reassign it to mru@openoffice.org.
Tesekür ederim.
Comment 2 gorkem 2002-01-15 20:28:16 UTC 
Created attachment 945 [details]
3 documents -xls,ppt,doc- having turkish chars and apostrophes
Comment 3 gorkem 2002-01-15 20:31:10 UTC 
With Open Office 641b, I'm able to open Microsoft Word files 
including turkish characters with apparently no problems, but 
by only re-formatting those chars with Times and New Century 
Schoolbook.

A friend of me was able to use additional Arial and Times new 
roman, so it looks like it's not an issue with ooo itself,
and rather with fonts ooo includes by default.

Additionally, a word/excel/ppt document containing apostrophes
cannot be properly handled. Instead, a question mark appears
(in all fonts _except_ Charter, courier and utopia). SO this
looks like a font issue, too.

Does OOO system accept proper Turkish font patches for upcoming 
releases?
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2002-01-23 12:20:25 UTC 
This only occurs with OpenOffice. It seems that the font substitution
does not work correctly. When I manually set the Font replacement (in
the Options) for Times New Roman to Times, everthing is displayed fine.
Comment 5 cartman 2002-05-07 19:00:13 UTC 
No problem here with OOo 1.0 it renders all my Turkish fonts good
enough. I have all m$ webfonts (http://typography.micro$oft.com) packages.
Comment 6 cartman 2002-05-07 19:05:36 UTC 
Created attachment 1587 [details]
Rendering of sample.doc with Turkish fonts
Comment 7 gorkem 2002-05-07 19:23:38 UTC 
This bug should be closed. It's definitely fixed.  
Thanks, Ismail.
Comment 8 christof.pintaske 2003-04-09 13:52:33 UTC 
closed