Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 3345
Default fonts in OpenOffice and special latvian characters.
Last modified: 2002-05-16 10:24:40 UTC
Default fonts in OpenOffice are OK, but when I try to type in special characters in my native (latvian) language, I got question marks displayed instead of normal text. When I change the size of a "question mark", then I got my special character displayed correctly. The size of fonts on which "question marks" are displayed correctly can be different - e.g. some fonts show my special characters correctly, when their size is 12, some only when 15.
DL->HDU: I think it might be your task.
The problem seems to be that the latvian characters are not available in a scalable font. Please install a scalable font e.g. a truetype font which contains the characters and use this font for your texts.
Yes, I have installed TrueType fonts and they work perfectly with latvian language. But strange is the fact, that _after_ installing those TTF fonts, the original OpenOffice fonts started to work correctly with special latvian characters whatever size they were set to. - Question marks have dissapeared. If this little "hack" is done, there is no problem, though it persists in "out of the box" version.
Yes, we do not have a license to ship our nice StarOffice fonts with OpenOffice, so this problem will probably persist in OOo. That the display of latvian characters worked even with the old fonts after the installation of the truetype fonts is probably caused by a working font fallback. If a character cannot be displayed in the original font we try to display it in the fallback font. If this doesn't work we display the question mark you have seen.
closing.