https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42123
Bug #: 42123
Summary: it is wrong to group scripts as "Western", "CTL" and
"Asian" in the font selection dialog
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: medium
Component: Localisation
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
It is wrong to group scripts as "Western", "CTL" and "Asian" in the font
selection dialog.
There are several reasons for this, but the most important reason is that it is
quite possible that people would use more than one "CTL" font in one document.
This happens more often than many programmers would think.
Besides, most people don't know what "CTL" means. People who write Hindi,
Arabic or Amharic, don't consider their language "CTL" or "complex" - for them
it's quite simple. Finally, Hindi and Arabic are "CTL", while Chinese and
Japanese are "Asian", even though all these languages are spoken in Asia, which
adds to the confusion.
The right way to implement this is to allow font selection by language and
script and not by arbitrary outdated grouping like "Western", "CTL" and
"Asian". This is more or less the way it is done in HTML and CSS, where you can
write <span lang="az-Arab">SOME AZERBAIJANI TEXT IN THE ARABIC SCRIPT</span>
and then write the following CSS:
:lang(az-Arab) {
font-family: "Nice Azerbaijani Arabic font";
}
(Maybe this will require a change in the OpenDocument standard, too.)
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