https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95274
--- Comment #30 from Michael Bauer <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #29) > Some background on the language tag are here [1]. The point is that complex > layouts like Korean require special glyphs and RTL fonts have a different > reading direction, for example. <shrugs> I write a lot of Cantonese, so I'm aware of the complexities of getting the right font locale variants under Unicode. And yes, Microsoft isn't great at obeying the default locale font setting. BUT the point is that while having a working default locale font setting is great, that is NOT the right place to also govern the locale setting for a particular section of text. > That's not the way to distinguish between Gaelic and English, of course, > where you have to define explicitly what language to use. You can do this > for the whole paragraph or just characters. Create dedicated styles for the > languages you need. The point is, I CANNOT do this for the whole paragraph or just characters. Not without going through huge contortions. Something that is SUCH a common event for users working in more than one language, this should require two clicks at the most. Not having to work your way through the default locale font settings or having to create dedicated styles. That's just NOT user friendly for such a basic common issue. > No idea what causes the "erratic behavior" on auto detection. The reported > issue is also not easy to reproduce. And more generally, I see no way to > reliably detect the correct language. > > [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/languagetags I'm not buying that. I'm no programmer as you well know but while I understand auto-detection can get things wrong (Microsoft does, often enough, even when this feature is turned off) but I cannot imagine it's impossible to weigh detection towards either a) installed dictionary and/or LO UI languages or b) user choice via settings. Not suggesting Tibetan when your LO UI language is French and you have French, Spanish and English dictionaries installed but not Tibetan cannot be impossible to do. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
