[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112973] Some font families getting split in English locale

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112973

--- Comment #6 from Timur I. Davletshin <timur.davletshin at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #5)
> (In reply to Timur I. Davletshin from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #3)
> > > The behaviour under the English locale is the correct one IMO, since
> > > otherwise you wouldn’t have a way to use Vollkorn Black or Warnock Pro
> > > Caption etc.
> > 
> > I believe it is not. They belong to one family, additional properties are
> > available in Format -> Character -> Style.
> 
> But you can’t select them from the main UI since only buttons for R/I/B/BI
> are provided. The way other office suite(s) work is by grouping only the
> four basic styles and anything else is considered a separate family.

I have little chance to use other office suites last decade, so cannot comment
which way is de facto standard these days. But without any doubt compatibility 
should not depend on locale used on client's PC. E.g. I received document
created in Russian locale and fonts are mess on my English locale PC. IMHO
opinion, relying on font family specified in font file is the best approach.
Some foundries make fonts available as stylistic variants, others prefer to
define separate family name.

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