[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

Hi, Peter!
Peter Maunder wrote
> Is their any reason you are still using the MS CP936 on your system rather
> than Unicode.?

This is for downward compatibility with older programs not supporting
Unicode. Every Windows distribution has this option, in Win7 it's in Control
Panel→Region and Language→Administration→Language for Non-Unicode programs.
It by default the corresponding code page for your OS language. Unicode
programs use UTF-16 and non-unicode ones use CP936. Windows does the
translation for API calls.I list this out because I have experienced
language encoding issues with programs originally in English, notably with
commandline applications like Perl. Windows is notorious for having Unicode
bugs in its commandline interface.
Peter Maunder wrote
> ���� (the replacement character) are a different matter and often found
> when you cut and paste in windows system when the character sets do not
> match.

Thanks for pointing out this difference. I agree with your opinion that LO
conforms to Unicode Standard.But the problem remains that LO could not
display a glyph though the right font has been set. This is not a single
case. Actually all glyphs not exposed in the Special Characters dialog for a
certain font cannot be displayed, despite that the font supports them. You
can test this using FreeSerif, Code2002 and Segoe UI Symbol.
Peter Maunder wrote
> When I type Ogham, which is very seldom, I just enter the Unicode directly
> (I am using Ubuntu) using the keys.  LibO is set up to substitute for the
> missing glyphs.

Is the direct Unicode input one feature of LO or that of the Linux system?
Windows has a limited support for direct Unicode input for code points
<=U+FFFF.



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