Hi, > When I did a fresh install of RC1 + updates, OO seemed to work very well > under the Japanese locale. However, after I added more fonts to the > system, OO comes up completely garbled in the Japanese locale.
You mean "add"? I usually get degradation when I remove some fonts packages. OOo seems to make a mix of why it finds. Read: I know xfs open various fonts at once, at OOo startup. > I'd venture to guess that it chose to use some font which doesn't > support > Japanese so all non-English text is unreadable. For the UI, there is "Kochi Gothic" but it is not packaged yet. You can change UI font in Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org, font substitution, "Andale Sans UI" -> whatever, for screen only (on top of my head). Watanabe Mincho from fonts-ttf-japanese is really no usable. Note that whenever you start up OOo and change the locale (--lang option or other means like overriding LC_MESSAGES), the default UI font is changed to mach that locale best, modulus the font is actually there. :-( If you know other *free* and freely redistributable Japanese fonts in TrueType or Type1 format, you are very welcome to suggest them. Bye, Gwenole.
