https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51314

Roman Eisele <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> 2012-06-28 03:53:52 PDT ---
To handle the original problem with the display of the special Turkish
characters Ğ ğ Ş ş first, some testing gives me the impression that this is a
font/encoding problem.

The sample file uses the font face "Arial" in the cells. If I remember
correctly, Microsoft distributed (at least with Mac software like MS Office for
Mac and Internet Explorer / Mac) for a long time rather old versions of their
core fonts, including Arial. These old versions, e.g. Arial version 1.02, from
"MS Master Set v1.00", with a © date of 1990-1992, but built in 1998 (!), just
contains the default MacOS Roman character and the ISO Latin one / Windows
Latin 1 character set, including Öö Çç Iı and Üü (which are OK according to the
sample file), but NOT the characters Ğ ğ Ş ş.

Therefore, if I install this old version of Arial on my machine, the sample
file looks like described in the original report: in the cells, all occurences
of Ğ ğ Ş ş do "not display correctly. In the cells the style looks generic and
is out of proportion to the other non-Turkish characters." That's it.

If I install a newer version of Arial, e.g. version 5.01.2x, © date 2006, which
includes Ğ ğ Ş ş together with many other special characters, the sample file
looks much better: the characters Ğ ğ Ş ş fit well with their context. I will
attach a screenshot showing this. The same is true if I select all cells and
set the font face to any font containing these extended characters, e.g.
Apple's "Lucida Grande", Adobe's "Minion Pro" or "Myriad Pro", or most other
technically modern font faces.

This does also explain why the same characters "where displaying correctly in
the editing area": the editing area does NOT use the font which is used for the
cells, but always a system font (on MacOS X, IMHO "Lucida Grande") which does
contain these special characters.

(I will test and report about the other issue, mentioned for the first time in
comment #2, separately.)


@ [email protected]:
Please try if this explanation is sufficient and helps to fix the problem for
you. Just try setting the font of all cells to a font which contains glyphs for
the characters Ğ ğ Ş ş, e.g. "Lucida Grande"; then the special characters
should display correctly. You can inspect your fonts if they contain these
characters if you select "Insert" > "Special Character ..." from the
LibreOffice Menu bar and scroll down the characters list in the dialog window
"Special Characters". You can change the font face at the top left of that
dialog window. If my explanation is right, you should see a rather short list
of characters if you select "Arial" as font face, not including Ğ ğ Ş ş etc.

Another way to fix the problem would be to install a newer version of Arial;
however, I don't know how to get that (copyrighted) Microsoft font legally now.

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