From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 09:47:14 EDT
--- Anthony Fok <anthony@thizlinux.com> wrote: > On
Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:27:19AM +0100, Andrew
> Dunbar wrote:
> > Oh in this case I would recommend using the
> English name in the .abw
> > xml except for fonts that only have a CJK name.
> With this knowlege
> > we have to make sure this field is properly UTF-8
> so it can actually
> > take English and CJK characters. We should really
> test with MSWord
> > by creating docs with English/CJK and CJK-only
> fonts, saving them in
> > various formats: .doc,
> > .rtf, .html, and seeing what font names go into
> the
> > documents. We certainly have to load anything
> Word
> > spits out.
>
> That would be nice. MS Word sometimes spits out
> Chinese fontname,
In that case we should accept either for fonts that
have both but maybe we should have a policy about
which we put into documents we export. Do you know
if we correctly import docs with CJK font names now?
If we don't can you file bugs please?
> sometimes English fontnames, and sometimes it is
> implied: It would say
> the entire document uses "Times News Roman", but
> Word could still
> display the Chinese characters because it uses
> "MingLiU" or other CJK
> fonts as fallback.
Yes this is something we don't currently support but
I think we need to. The best way is to have somewhere
default font settings for each script (not each
language): roman (or western), greek, cyrillic,
traditional chinese, simplified chinese, arabic,
hebrew, thai, etc. Well there probably is a case for
doing it on a per-language basis but that would make
for a lot more options to require setting ):
> Yes, there are probably too many variations, so
> AbiWord will have to be
> smart; and we may have to maintain a small list of
> fontname data in
> AbiWord too. I don't know. :-)
I hope not but if it's necessary it's probably
possible.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
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