I'll probably try OpenOffice mailinglists if no-one here can help, but heres a shot:
I have installed the locale ti_ER.UTF-8 on my debian-edu system (sarge), and it works somewhat. In console I get a bit funky characters, date gives: "ዓርቢ፡ መጋቢት 4 መዓልቲ 7:14:28 ድሕር ሰዓት CET 2005 ዓ/ም" My fedora core 3 dist shows the right character (Tigrigna), so I'm guessing I'm missing a font or similar. Anyone have ideas? Further I start oowriter, and on my Fedora Core 3 system I get good behaviour except the font is invisible... I can cut'n'past this invisible font onto the console to get the right Tigrigna characters. I'm guessing I'm missing a font here as well... any ideas? (A hint here is that GDK reports a warning about XLib not supporting the locale, but I could not get any more help with google on this) On my Debian-Edu system I get normal alphanumerical characters, i.e. there is no translation of the charactermap into tigrigna characters. I guess this is due to the problems in console, but I'm very new to setting up locales, so I'm learning every day. If anyone has pointers, I would appreciate it very much. If I can get this to work, FAIR will be using Debian-Edu on over 1000 PCs in Eritrea. If not, they will revert to Windows98 and Geez+Word, which is a waste of resources, in my opinion. -- Vegard Munthe FAIR
