--- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > Anthony Fok Tung-Ling > ThizLinux Laboratory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.thizlinux.com/ > Debian Chinese Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ > Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
