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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0015541 | Scribus | Fonts | public | 2019-01-17 22:47 | 2022-01-16 13:44 |
Reporter | Gibbz | Assigned To | jghali | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
Product Version | 1.5.4 | ||||
Summary | 0015541: Japanese characters dont work well | ||||
Description | I need to convert one of my flyers to have Japanese characters. But have found scribus just displays red boxes for the characters. It looks like its not mapping the character codes to their glyph's. In the story editor they show up fine, just not in the document. For now my workaround is to use Arial Unicode MS. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info/_japanese copy some japanese paste into scrubs | ||||
Additional Information | Running on windows 10. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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Not all fonts are suitable to perform Japanese text layout. The font has to contains the proper glyphs for Japanese characters. Arial Unicode MS is one of those fonts which can handle Japanese characters while the standard Arial does not. Lots of office applications are performing font substitutions when a user tries to use characters which do not exist in current font. This is not the case for Scribus... and this is intended. The story editor display font is not linked to the fonts used on canvas as the main purpose of story editor is to type text. Font and text handling is simplified in text editor in order to make it more efficient for long text editing. The story editor will generally use a single display font which can be changed using Settings > Display font... and may perform font substitution if some characters are not available in current display font. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2019-01-17 22:47 | Gibbz | New Issue | |
2019-01-18 00:06 | jghali | Assigned To | => jghali |
2019-01-18 00:06 | jghali | Status | new => resolved |
2019-01-18 00:06 | jghali | Resolution | open => no change required |
2019-01-18 00:06 | jghali | Note Added: 0045805 | |
2019-01-18 00:11 | jghali | Note Edited: 0045805 | |
2019-01-18 00:16 | jghali | Sticky Issue | No => Yes |
2019-01-18 00:16 | jghali | Sticky Issue | Yes => No |
2019-01-18 13:03 | jghali | Status | resolved => closed |
2022-01-16 13:44 | jghali | Relationship added | has duplicate 0016722 |