[libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice fonts and persian and arabic diacritics.

2016-07-05 Thread CVAlkan
Very interesting ... Many folks have only reluctantly transitioned from Windows XP; I still have XP in a VirtualBox VM solely so I can use the original/final Shapeware version of Visio in which I have many LARGE drawings and diagrams) by adopting Ubuntu (or some variant) 14.04 or similar; Microsof

[libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice fonts and persian and arabic diacritics.

2016-07-05 Thread V Stuart Foote
Frank, I don't think Nasrin is going to be offended. She is active on NVDA ML and our LibreOffice Accessibility ML and our Bugzilla. Seems reasonably thick skinned... I would note though that she is one of our remaining Windows XP users and that she is dependent on screen reader support and so ha

[libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice fonts and persian and arabic diacritics.

2016-07-05 Thread CVAlkan
My abject and public apologies to Nasrin; while I am familiar with the Arabic script (although not the Farsi language), I made an apparently erroneous assumption as to her gender, as a number of folks (including far and away the most helpful of all posters to this list) pointed out privately, Nasri

[libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice fonts and persian and arabic diacritics.

2016-07-05 Thread Piet van Oostrum
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[libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice fonts and persian and arabic diacritics.

2016-07-05 Thread CVAlkan
For the list: Nasrin sent me several replies privately listing some discoveries and conclusions, but I suspect others can benefit from this discussion, so I'm putting it back here. Documentation on this subject is sparse, often outdated, addressed to one operating system without specifying which on