Sunday, February 17, 2002, 2:38:50 PM, you wrote:
RT> On Sunday 17 February 2002 13:32, Onur Kucuk wrote: >> RT> I'm sure this one must have been asked and answered before, but >> I RT> can't find it in the archives .... >> >> RT> How do you get Star / Open Office to use a different charset? >> I need RT> Latin5 (iso-8859-9) encoding and can't find anything >> there to set it RT> (choosing language as Turkish has no effect >> either). Is there some RT> environment variable to set this or >> what? >> >> RT> Robin >> >> Honestly I could not also realize what "choosing Turkish" does, >> either. >> >> The display problem is caused by the default fonts of >> openoffice/staroffice lacking iso8859-9. To correct this, there is >> a utility in the main folder of the office, spadmin. Spadmin >> manages printers and fonts. Just open it up and show openoffice new >> truetype (ttf) fonts to use, that supports iso8859-9. Choosing "use >> symlinks/softlinks" will prevent wasting space for fonts. RT> I tried that, both as root and user. It still defaults to iso8859-1, RT> as far as I can tell. A quick fix was to download and install a RT> couple of "Turkish only" fonts, but I'd still like to be able to RT> choose between character sets for existing ttf and Type 1 fonts. RT> IMHO, Open Office would be a better (and smaller!) program if it RT> stopped trying to duplicate things that are already done perfectly RT> well by the existing system. I realise this is extra work if you're RT> developing a cross-platform application, but why not just use the RT> existing X-fonts, use CUPS or lpd for printing, and even Qt/Tk for RT> widgets etc.? (I suspect the answer would be "If you want that, use RT> KOffice," but KOffice, although it's an impressive application, is RT> really not my cup of tea.) RT> Robin No actually I agree with you. Koffice is good, and in time it will be really good, with improvements on stability and filters, but now is the time of openoffice. Not so long ago the staroffice was trying to be a window/desktop manager on its own, perhaps designed to be used at office only. Waste of resources, especially for the desktop user, and waste of time of the developers, preventing them to focus on some other things, other than the dm etc. They gave up trying to make their own desktop, a good start, and a big improvement. Though I am not sure that the whole openoffice can be ported to other libraries, easily. I guess what openoffice team cares most, is being available in most platforms, so that they can become a standart (and I really would love to get rid of the pressure of `MS compatiable`). To be such, they must have compatible libaries, either created by them, or not. Perhaps they prefer to stay in their own line for a while, not risking or trying, so they have the time to focus on prior subjects, like stability, speed etc. This may be good, that they are spending time more efficiently for now, but this may be bad, that they may get in a highway, that they may not be able to get out of, later. Hope no such thing happens. Regards Onur Kucuk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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