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Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Frank from comment #12)
The substitution of fonts even when the font in use has the necessary
characters is actually a separate, larger problem, so don't confuse the two.

LibreOffice seems to use OS services to layout text and those seem to do the
actual substitution in many cases. These services in turn rely on what the
font file reports as the characters it contains and what it can do with them.

This was never the case on Linux, and no longer the case on other platforms in
5.3; we have full control over the text layout and font fallback.

A few of us had a recent discussion about this on the Doc Foundation forum.
See:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Struggling-with-Hebrew-in-LO-td4198211.
html

Skimming few posts, it seems to be mostly speculation and misunderstanding of
how bidirectional text is handled.

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