To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62291 Issue #:|62291 Summary:|Word processor : recognition of non-unicode custom |characters and features Component:|Word processor Version:|current Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|Windows XP Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|FEATURE Priority:|P5 Subcomponent:|ui Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|aoku
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 19 16:46:29 -0800 2006 ------- Some fonts are using non-unicode characters and features such as ligatures, mark positioning or contextual alternates to automatically transform a defined succession of glyph into another single glyph. Here are some example : "f f i" => single glyph of the ligature "ffi" "o e" => glyph "œ" (this one is an unicode ligature, works for french "œuf") "[any small letter] s" normal zigziging s "[any] s [any small letter]" bar old "s", especially used for "st" or "sd" (arab wordprocessing with final, initial, isolated and medial forms is another revelant example, some of them are coded in unicode, and some other not) The non-unicode features are not recognized by OpenOffice (tested in "Writer"), as in most of winXP compatible word processors (apart from BabelPad). It would be quite nice if the word processor would handle such non- unicode combinations of glyph. I'm not sure of it, but without this ability, some languages which have no unicode-defined locations (perhaps Tibetan, Urdu, Bengali, Farsi, this list is not exhaustive) for their accented characters/ligatures/other features cannot be displayed properly. Another argument in favor of an enhancement would be that OpenOffice do not use the entire possibilities of fonts with OTL tables. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
