[opensuse] Problems with Romanian diacritics
Good day everybody (especially Silviu, you might have seen it too!), We just ran in a very bad issue here. In Romanian, there are some diacritics, like s and t with some 'sign' under (don't ask me how they are called ;) ) Now there is something like a 'keyboard driver issue' I assume. Simple test: open OO.org, font Times New Roman. Type some text with diacritics (I only found s and t to be error prone so far). Save your file, preferrably in .doc format (for the next step to be easier). Now it get's nasty (you need a windows / winword). Open the file you just created in Winword. All the s and t with diacritics have been replaced with 'squares'. Next: change (in winword) the font to Tahoma. s and t appear (on first sight you would say correct). So what went wrong? So somewhere there must be a problem, no? Let's take it a bit further: Keep your font on Tahoma (on winword) and now next to the s and t which we 'imported' from openOffice, type on your windows a s and t (with diacritics of course). Looks the same? Look closer! Zoom if nescessary! It get's apparent, that the Romanian keyboard driver actually put's the wrong character in place there. The differece: Linux puts a t (or s) with a small, non-connected diagonal line under the letter. The correct diacritic would be a 'rounded' shape under (like in french under the c)... it should look like the lower part of the number 5. So a nasty bug hidden somewhere in the Keyboard driver(s) for Romanian I assume. (It's pretty irrelevant what application you use.. it's always 'wrong' on Linux). And this of course causes very bad interoperability between Linux and Windows DOCs. Next of course, I'll file a bug report with this content... I hope I have ANY chance to get this fixed. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Good day everybody (especially Silviu, you might have seen it too!),
We just ran in a very bad issue here. In Romanian, there are some diacritics, like s and t with some 'sign' under (don't ask me how they are called ;) )
S-comma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-comma (also says that Windows does not have the right font). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 3/18/2009 at 12:26, Per Jessen
wrote: Dominique Leuenberger wrote: Good day everybody (especially Silviu, you might have seen it too!),
We just ran in a very bad issue here. In Romanian, there are some diacritics, like s and t with some 'sign' under (don't ask me how they are called ;) )
S-comma
right... by now I even found an update for Windows XP which fixes this on that side... but that would make me rely on the recipient party having a specific patch installed, which was never rolled out by MS to the wide audience using automatic updates... so I'm certain that 99% won't have it installed (except the few academians, that actually cared between the difference between s-cedille and s-comma (that's actually why it did not work on Windows! They use the older standard S-cedille and Linux uses S-comma). So all in all: a very bad interop between two systems... kinda easy to say which one is at fauld.. kinda not so easy to say how to solve it (for an end user experience...) Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Dominique Leuenberger
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