Hi,
I am attaching three screenshots to illustrate the (Chinese) font
garbling problem in StarOffice 8 running in Solaris Express:
Screenshot 1 shows that some of the Chinese characters are very badly
garbled (& randomly misplaced) in the File dialog window. The actual
words are shown in the main (document) window. System Application font:
sans; Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Screenshot 2 shows that the Chinese characters are now CORRECTLY shown
in the File dialog window. Again, the actual words (same as in
Screenshot 1) are shown in the main (document) window. System
Application font: FZMingTi; Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Screenshot 3 shows that the Chinese characters are very badly garbled in
the File dialog window. The actual words are shown in the main
(document) window. System Application font: sans; Locale: zh_CN.UTF-8
Comparing Screenshots 1 and 2, it shows that the garbling problem
disappears after I change the preference of system application font from
the default sans to FZMingTi (I believe any Chinese-based fonts also
should do). However, this change makes English characters look ugly.
Font garbling problem also disappears when I use FZHeiTi. Using this
font makes the English characters look more or less acceptable.
Comparing Screenshots 1 and 3, it shows that changing the login locale
to unicode-based Chinese does not solve the font garbling problem.
Also as I mentioned in separate thread(s), I did not observe such a font
garbling problem in other programs, nor in running SarOffice under
Solaris 10. I ran into similar problem in Linux, but this problem
appears to have been solved there (at least in SuSE 10.1, or maybe 10.2).
These screen shots were taken running StarOffice 8 in Solaris Express
Developers Edition 79b, everything was under the default conditions. I
have observed (& reported in the OpenSolaris.org i18n forum) the same
problems in all versions of Solaris Express (including SXCE 81), as well
as from running OpenOffice.org in Solaris Express, up to & inclusive of
version 2.3.1. I have been using Solaris (Express) desktops for more
than two years.
The only situation where I did not see Chinese font garbling, when
running under system default conditions, is when I ran StarSuite 8 in
the Chinese locale. However, even in the Chinese locale, the font
garbling problem would re-appear if I change the default system font to,
say, Arial.
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