LibreOffice 3.3.4 Japanese localization broken

l10n
#1

LibreOffice does not show any Japanese in the menus or pulldowns anymore.
Only squares wherever Japanese text would appear.

Japanese text within the documents are fine, just the menus and such are
wrecked, so I think it is probably the localization that is broken. Can
somebody please help?

I have already deleted my .libreoffice file and even tried it in a brand
new account and it still does not work --- so that leads me to believe that
the problem is in the install on the system.

My LibreOffice version is:

LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1

My OS is Linux Mint 11.

Thanks for reading.
Hoping to hear from you all.
^_^[?]

#2

Hi David,

I don't know much about Linux Mint, but you may install Takao Font
(ttf-takao) or IPA Font (otf-ipafont).

Hope this help.

#3

Hi David, *,

LibreOffice does not show any Japanese in the menus or pulldowns anymore.
Only squares wherever Japanese text would appear.

A clear sign that a non-suitable font is used, no problem with the
translation here.

My LibreOffice version is:

LibreOffice 3.3.4

That's the old codeline (current stable version is 3.4.5, and 3.5.0 is
in release-candidate phase/will be released in a few weeks)

My OS is Linux Mint 11.

And let me guess: You're using the KDE variant?

Those font problems are almost exclusively reported by KDE users. For
some reason their desktop-configuration never configure a
proper/explicit font suitable for the UI language chosen by the user.
So when LO requests the font that is configured for use for the UI, it
gets one that doesn't contain the characters (but claims to do so) →
you get the replacement squares. - Or it returns a generic alias and
what LO gets as actual font has the same problem..

So either:
* configure a proper UI font in your desktop's appearance settings (or
wherever font controls are set in KDE)
or
* disable "use system font for UI display" in LO's options, that way
LO will have a look at its own font-list and pick the first that is
installed. However this is not guaranteed to work if you don't have
any of the fonts installed and LO then falls back on the generic types
like "just give me a sans serif font" - as your system apparently has
a broken "sans" font (font that is returned when the system is
queried for a "sans-serif" font) that is handed out (broken in the
sense that it claims to cover the characters, but then doesn't)

ciao
Christian

#4

Thanks for the reply.
It turns out that I am using GNOME not KDE, but your description of the
problem sounds like it could be reasonable. Would you by any chance know
where the same font setting place can be found in GNOME 2.x?

#5

AWASHIRO Ikuya ikuya@fruitsbasket.info via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=1311182>
global.libreoffice.org
6:42 PM (37 minutes ago)

to l10n
Hi David,

I don't know much about Linux Mint, but you may install Takao Font
(ttf-takao) or IPA Font (otf-ipafont).

Hope this help.

AWASHIRO,

Thanks for the reply.
I am installing the fonts now and will give it a try.

#6

right system fonts installed.
Thanks a bunch!

#7

Hi David, *,

[...]
It turns out that I am using GNOME not KDE, but your description of the
problem sounds like it could be reasonable.  Would you by any chance know
where the same font setting place can be found in GNOME 2.x?

Depends on how much the distro patches the gnome menu structure. Here
it is reachable via Systems|Settings → Appearance

That dialog offers theme selection and also has a "Fonts" tab. (in
previous releases of gnome, it was a separate entry in the menu, a
separate dialog)

If you don't find it in the menu, run it from the commandline with
gnome-appearance-properties

ciao
Christian