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------- Additional comments from dlander...@openoffice.org Tue Aug 10 00:27:58 +0000 2010 ------- Reading msgNo=102943, I don't have enough knowledge to comment on the overall issues re sal_Unicodes. However, reading the additional comments from sb Mon Jun 22 10:34:10 +0000 2009, regarding msgNo=18462, Subject: Unicode---Give us all of it!, apparently OOo was initially written to support only Unicode Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) (U+0000 to U+FFFF) and a lot of modules might need to be modified to support other Unicode planes. This is unfortunate, because apparently, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_Ideographic_Plane#Supplementary_Ideographic_Plane, apparently Plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), is also used for currently valid symbols, including musical and mathematical, as well as historical symbols. The fact that the OOo Formula can't take advantage of the STIX Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400 to U+1D7FF) should be a concern, since the STIX fonts were created by consortium of publishers of mathematical, scientific, and technical books and journals to serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Also, OOo the STIX fonts will support OOo competitors: "Additional OpenType features will be added in the second release which will allow using the font in Microsoft Office applications such as Word 2010. The third release will add LaTeX support." (See http://www.stixfonts.org/.) So, first and foremost, as I want to use the STIX fonts, of course I think that this issue is important, as I really don't want to use Microsoft Word or LaTex to write my mathematics and scientific documents. Secondly, I disagree that this issue is an "enhancement", because the Special Characters dialog allows the selection of U+1D400 to U+1D7FF symbols, which it shouldn't do, so I call this a bug. Thirdly, the OOo 3.2 documentation claims support for PostScript-based OpenType fonts, which implies all of the Unicode Planes and doesn't say only Plane 0. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
