https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95274
--- Comment #35 from Eike Rathke <[email protected]> --- Much of the confusion why the Language list even sits beside the font options probably results from the fact that most people do not have CJK and CTL enabled, otherwise they would get two or three font sections with each a language correlated. Of course language is not a font attribute, despite that the dialog may look like it would suggest that. The reason it is like it is again is ..haha.. MS-Word.. also there is the Western/CJK/CTL distinction. Now what it actually is good for is that if one types text of CJK or CTL mixed with "Western" (or rather non-CJK and non-CTL), then the text's language determines which font to use. Additionally the font preview may change according to the language selected if it uses a different script. However, with the "Western" languages this currently happens only for Greek (and Irish;) and with CJK for Chinese vs Japanese. That would probably need more sensible short preview texts, Lorem Ipsum in other scripts doesn't make sense.. I didn't dig deeper. If there wasn't this correlation between language/script and font to be used then the Language list(s) could be independent, but would lose the font preview. If one uses only "Western" then just view it as both, the three font attributes to be set for the selection, and the language to be set for the selection, without dependency. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
