[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51693] New: : [PATCH] Glyph substitutions of Chinese characters seldom work in Linux without Freetype

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51693

             Bug #: 51693
           Summary: : [PATCH] Glyph substitutions of Chinese characters
                    seldom work in Linux without Freetype
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 3.3.0 Beta2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
 Status Whiteboard: BSA
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Libreoffice
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: lubo.rintel at gooddata.com


Problem description: 

On a stock RHEL (6) installation, when OpenOffice.org runs in headless mode
(effectively disabling fontconfig), Chinese characters included in Latin texts
don't get replaced with UMing family glyphs (which is the Chinese font of
choice in RHEL and other Linux distributions).

Situation seemed to improve in a later LibreOffice commit that added some UMing
substitution, but that was not quite sufficient (did not work in spreadsheet
with zh-cn characters) for me.

I'm including the patches with changes I've done to make things work for me
with some guesswork and attempts to be consistent across Chinese variants.

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