Re: [tlug] Re: Open Office Kanji problem

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> steven smith <sjs@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I just opened Open Office for the first time.  It doesn't
> > seem to handle Kanji.   I used Koichi Mincho font and in a
> > straight text file this works fine.   This is in Open Office
> > 2.2  as installed with the Ubuntu 7.04 release right out of
> t>he box.A  I get some nice little boxes but no text.
> > Cut/past from Firefox behaves the same.
>
> Sounds like the classic setup issue: AFAIK you need to go to the
> Language Settings (Tools/Options) in OO general language options, and
> enable Asian languages and choose Japanese (if you want a default as
> well). Then restart OO, and go to OO Writer options where you should
> now have a new option called "Asian fonts (basic)", and choose some
> Asian fonts there.
>
> HTH
This was indeed the problem.  How ever, on windows this was 
something I never had to do.  Also, I chose the koichi 
mincho because I knew that this particular font handled 
kanji fine.  I don't believe I had to do anything special 
when using the windows version of OO.  And actually, unless 
I'm doing vertical text layour or something special to asian 
languages, I don't understand why you would have to do this. 
 But it fixed my problem and right now I don't think I'm 
going to worry about it.

Thanks for the help!

Steve S.