[Bug 431608] accents and punctuations in Liberation fonts are off writing hebrew texts

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Summary: accents and punctuations in Liberation fonts are off writing hebrew texts


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431608





------- Additional Comments From nadavkav at gmail.com  2008-02-14 13:49 EST -------
i have looked into the way OpenOffice uses fonts
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ)
made some debug tests with the FontConfig system
and found out that since i have msttcorefonts package installed
i get missing Hebrew Glyphs in Liberation Sans being replace with 
parallel glyphs from Ariel (MS font).

according to "http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ" 
i can control this replacement at a system wide level - fontconfig 

or OO system wide level - 
$INSTALL/openoffice/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu 
default font replacement setting 

or from the OO interface "Tools >> Options >> Fonts >> FRT"


i talked to OOo people which told me TTF are less discriptive as regarding to
punctuation marks and positioning them in a text line then OpenType fonts and
that i should use OTF as much as i can.

which means that Ariel TTF is probably OK but not good for Hebrew punctuation
marks in OO. (OOo has a bug-report for improving the handling of ttf more
completely)

so let's close this one out :-)

i will talk to the Culmus (free hebrew fonts) people and see if it is possible
to get their Hebrew glyphs and use them in Liberation. dimension-wise and
legal-wise.

:-)

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