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ID Category Severity Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
0007153 [Scribus] Fonts feature always 08-Jul-20 18:37 09-Oct-12 22:06
Reporter cicada View Status public  
Assigned To pierremarchand
Priority normal Resolution open Platform windows
Status assigned   OS XP SP3
Projection major rework   OS Version XP SP3
ETA none Fixed in Version Product Version 1.3.5svn
  Target Version 1.5.0 Product Build
Summary 0007153: Font Name should be shown in its own language
Description I am using Traditional Chinese.
Scribus can only show Font names in its English name (no matter in Font Selector or Font Previewer), but not in its original Chinese name, which are very inconvenience.
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(0021022)
subik (manager)
09-Jan-28 09:48

BTW where are stored national names in fonts?
(0021040)
pierremarchand (manager)
09-Jan-29 13:42
edited on: 09-Jan-29 13:43

In NAME table. I’ll try to handle it at some point, but font identifier will remain the default name as reported by FreeType and is generally in en. Which could (if different from the displayed name) lead to some problems here and there (eg. if you want to hack a Scribus file, which is highly legitimate) but necessary to ensure some consistancy when sharing a file.
And it’s only available in SFNT based fonts such as TTFs and OTFs. I don’t know about localized names in PS fonts, will have a look.

(0022676)
386sky (reporter)
09-Oct-12 11:56

It will be good if jghali adds the blocks
U+0250-U+02AF: IPA Extensions
U+02B0-U+02FF: Spacing Modifier Letters
U+0300-U+036F: Combining Diacritical Marks
to support phonetic symbols and

U+3000-U+303F: CJK Symbols and Punctuation
U+3040-U+309F: Hiragana
U+30A0-U+30FF: Katakana
U+4E00-U+9FA5: CJK Unified Ideographs
U+FF00-U+FFEF: Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
to support Japanese!
(0022684)
plinnell (administrator)
09-Oct-12 22:06

Adding this support is not trivial. So, to the original reporter, please be patient with this feature request. It takes a lot to implement this and some parts of the fix are dependent on other third party libraries.

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
08-Jul-20 18:37 cicada New Issue
09-Jan-28 09:48 subik Note Added: 0021022
09-Jan-29 13:42 pierremarchand Note Added: 0021040
09-Jan-29 13:43 pierremarchand Note Edited: 0021040
09-Oct-12 11:56 386sky Note Added: 0022676
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Note Added: 0022684
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Assigned To => pierremarchand
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Severity minor => feature
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Status new => assigned
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Projection none => major rework
09-Oct-12 22:06 plinnell Target Version => 1.5.0



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