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

On 2016-07-05 07:00, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 04/07/16 02:02 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
> > hi every one.
> > i read the previous post about unicode support in libreoffice and
> > became very worried.
> > does libreoffice support unicode independently?
> > i mean if someone install a fresh windows (without installing any
> > font), is it possible to read the persian and arabic documents and
> > write the documents in two languages?
> > a person who has a fresh windows, does not install separate windows,
> > and also the only office program is libreoffice.
> > and my second question is, how to configure libreoffice to support
> > persian and arabic diacritics like the letters?
> > i reported a bug for this problem almost two years ago and without any
> > result until now.
> > i pray for you and request devine mercy and grace for you.
> The short answer is no. While a document may contain unicode 
> characters, they still need to be displayed which requires a font or 
> localization file. Normally people who can read a language have the 
> files installed. If you don't have a font for a particular language, 
> it won't display correctly.
>
> Windows will use a system font for text editors and may replace fonts 
> for word processors, etc. with one that has similar metrics. However 
> it won't install a character set for a language it doesn't have.

If you go File>Properties>Font and tick Embed are the fonts then 
embedded in the document to be able to read it even if you don't have 
those fonts installed?
Steve


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