Re: [libreoffice-l10n] LibreOffice 3.3.4 Japanese localization broken

Hi David, *,

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM, david stands <david.stands@gmail.com> wrote:
> LibreOffice does not show any Japanese in the menus or pulldowns anymore.
> Only squares wherever Japanese text would appear.

A clear sign that a non-suitable font is used, no problem with the
translation here.

> My LibreOffice version is:
>
> LibreOffice 3.3.4

That's the old codeline (current stable version is 3.4.5, and 3.5.0 is
in release-candidate phase/will be released in a few weeks)
> My OS is Linux Mint 11.

And let me guess: You're using the KDE variant?

Those font problems are almost exclusively reported by KDE users. For
some reason their desktop-configuration never configure a
proper/explicit font suitable for the UI language chosen by the user.
So when LO requests the font that is configured for use for the UI, it
gets one that doesn't contain the characters (but claims to do so) →
you get the replacement squares. - Or it returns a generic alias and
what LO gets as actual font has the same problem..

So either:
* configure a proper UI font in your desktop's appearance settings (or
wherever font controls are set in KDE)
or
* disable "use system font for UI display" in LO's options, that way
LO will have a look at its own font-list and pick the first that is
installed. However this is not guaranteed to work if you don't have
any of the fonts installed and LO then falls back on the generic types
like "just give me a sans serif font" - as your system apparently has
a broken "sans" font  (font that is returned when the system is
queried for a "sans-serif" font) that is handed out (broken in the
sense that it claims to cover the characters, but then doesn't)

ciao
Christian

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