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piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 58

{Solved} Chinese characters in open office

Im running openoffice-base on XFCE. I have some programs written in Chinese under Microsoft Office, but when I try to open them in openoffice, the chinese characters cannot be displayed. I was trying to search locale or AUR for additional languages which would include chinese, but could not find any clue. Does anyone know how to solve this issue. I presume, it is simple, but I could not spot solution on formus or wiki. Thanks.

Last edited by piotr (2008-02-17 12:58:16)

phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

Posts: 182

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Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

Did you installed the proper Chinese fonts?
As far as I knew, the openoffice-18n packages are not required for displaying Chinese characters.

piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 58

Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

That is the problem. I simply do not know where to find the mandarin fonts. There is a mandarin dimsum on Gentoo, but i cnt find anything like that for arch.

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

Searching "chinese" in aur gave me a few things. Have you tried some of those?

http://aur.archlinux.org/

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circleback

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Registered: 2007-04-14

Posts: 49

Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

The packages for Chinese fonts are ttf-fireflysung, ttf-arphic-uming, ttf-arphic-ukai.

Dimsum is in AUR. I am running it now.

Last edited by circleback (2008-02-17 07:52:25)

hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

You just need to run "pacman -S wqy-bitmapfont wqy-zenhei" to install the latest WenQuanYi fonts.

piotr

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

Thanks hk2717 and all the others. It is working perfectly. I have installed the fonts with pacman, following the simple solution of hk2717. Again, Arch community has proven to be great.

phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

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Re: {Solved} Chinese characters in open office

IF you prefer KaiTi over HeiTi as myself, you can install arphic fonts. It also has traditional characters built in, so you will have universal looking on all Chinese websites.