https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151722

--- Comment #10 from خالد حسني <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #9)
> (In reply to خالد حسني from comment #8)
> > It seems that displaying localized font names is tied to the locale being
> > used and not the UI language. I find this questionable choice, but IIRC
> > Windows does this as well,
> 
> I don't remember seeing this on Windows. At least - not when I browse fonts,
> and not when I select fonts in MSO. Can you be more specific?

That was years ago, so I’ll need to test it again. But I had built a font that
had Arabic localized name entries, and it would show the Arabic names even on
systems with English UI language.

> > so may be there is a good rational for this or
> > may be users of certain locale expect it?
> 
> I doubt that a user, who has chosen a certain UI language for an app,
> expects drop-down list items to use the locale language instead. Not to
> mention the fact that many/most Hebrew and probably Arabic fonts don't even
> include a translation of the name.

Different user communities have different expectations, for example Chinese
names for Chinese fonts seem to be common.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.

Reply via email to