To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58592 Issue #:|58592 Summary:|Urdu OpenType Unicode fonts not rendering correctly Component:|l10n Version:|OOo 2.0 Platform:|Macintosh URL:| OS/Version:|Mac OS X Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|DEFECT Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|ui Assigned to:|sba Reported by:|jystickman
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 28 11:36:55 -0800 2005 ------- A friend is using OO in Southern Pakistan and is using Urdu OpenType Unicode fonts. Urdu is based on the Arabic script, and so the complex text layout options in OO 2.0 were a very welcome addition! There are a few different fonts used, but for the discussion at hand, there are two fonts of interest: Scheherazade and Noori Nastaliq. On a PC, both of these fonts work well in OO. On a Mac, the Scheherazade font works okay for the most part (there's still a few glitches) , but there's a major problem with the Noori Nastaliq font. The problem is that the dots in the letters (essential to the script) are missing from the Noori Nastaliq font. Will add an attachment following which shows this issue. The top line is Scheherazade and reads well. The bottom line is Noori Nastaliq and is missing the dots. The font developer sent the following based on what is being seen: "This sounds like a bug in OO, where it is not handling the "decomposition" of the letters into the base shape + dots correctly. I believe OO uses a considerably older version of the ICU libraries than I'm using in XeTeX, so that probably accounts for the difference. I'd recommend reporting it to the OO developers as a bug. (If you have the opportunity to try it on other platforms as well, that would be good; but I suspect it will behave the same everywhere.)" ... And then in a later email after I told him it works fine on the PC version of OO, but not on Mac... "I don't think the font installation method would be a factor in this; it's almost certainly because they're using a very old version of the ICU OpenType layout library. On Windows, OOo probably uses Uniscribe to handle OT fonts; that would explain the difference." "The Linux version would probably behave the same as the Mac one, as it'll be using the same ICU library." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
