Re: [libreoffice-users] encoding or font issue?

On 04/05/2011 01:33 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> A friend of mine is using Ubuntu Natty and LibreOffice, with a Chinese
> language environment. She's finding that a good half of the Writer
> documents she creates and sends to others are opening with garbled
> fonts -- both people using Windows and Macs are having the same
> problems.
>
> My understanding is that LibreOffice uses utf-8 by default. Where is the
> likeliest place to look for the culprit here? Mismatched fonts between
> different systems? Other people's computers opening the files in a
> default Chinese encoding (usually GB2312) rather than utf-8? If someone
> can tell me where to start looking, I hope I can provide some more
> useful debugging info…
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
Is there an issue with the font itself?
I know many of my fonts do not support the Unicode font options that 
have the Chinese characters in them.  These fonts also show the 
"standard Latin" characters.

Is there a way for you to make sure everyone is using the same font on 
all the computers?  I know that LibreOffice will tell me the document's 
text is CG Omega in the font bar list, even though I did not have it 
installed on my desktop.  It tries it's best to substitute the shown 
font so it looks like the used font. [I think it does this]

So can you share the font used by the Chinese environment computer with 
the people that receive the document[s]?
I know that there should be free fonts that can work for Ubuntu, 
Windows, and Mac OSX, and are proper for the Chinese language.



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