Not sure how to make Libreoffice support non-English documents

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 30.11.2021 6.02, Jun 711 wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:35 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas 
> <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org 
> <mailto:ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 27.11.2021 3.21, Jun 711 wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I followed the steps written in this repo to try to compile a
>     compact
>      > version of libreoffice that can convert non-English documents to
>     PDFs.
>      >
>     https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/Dockerfile
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/Dockerfile>
> 
>      >
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/Dockerfile
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/Dockerfile>>
>      >
>      > The compiled Libreoffice provided by Vlad Holubiev through the repo
>      > works for English documents but not for non-English documents. I
>     posted
>      > a question on the repo but haven't got any response.
>      > https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/issues/39
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/issues/39>
>      > <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/issues/39
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/issues/39>>
>      >
>      > I am not sure what flags to change. I found autogen.sh flags that he
>      > posted but none of them seems to be for supporting non-English
>      > languages.
>      >
>     https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/autogen-help-output-6.2.1.2.txt
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/autogen-help-output-6.2.1.2.txt>
> 
>      >
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/autogen-help-output-6.2.1.2.txt
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/master/autogen-help-output-6.2.1.2.txt>>
>      >
>      > I have also tried to change the default font to Noto Sans
>     following the
>      > step mentioned in the libreoffice thread as it seems to be able to
>      > support all languages but that didn't help.
>      >
>     https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545
>     <https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545>
> 
>      >
>     <https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545
>     <https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545>>
>      >
>      > I wonder if anyone can give me a pointer on what I can try next?
> 
>     Looks like this is the culprit:
>     https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/7927017e96531b042b70f0de24be40fd88b44b63/Dockerfile#L110
>     <https://github.com/vladgolubev/serverless-libreoffice/blob/7927017e96531b042b70f0de24be40fd88b44b63/Dockerfile#L110>
> 
>     --without-fonts         LibreOffice includes some third-party fonts to
>     provide a reliable basis for help content, templates, samples, etc.
>     When
>     these fonts are already known to be available on the system then you
>     should use this option.
> 
>     Obviously done to save disk space.
> 
>     So drop that option from the Dockerfile.
> 
>     Ilmari
> 
 > Thank you. We gave that a try and it solved font issue as in previously,
 > all the converted text had the same font.
 > However, it still doesn't work for these languages: Chinese, Japanese,
 > Korean and Punjabi out of the 8 languages that we tested.
 > This is what we had in our test.docx. The converted pdf doesn't contain
 > the font of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Punjabi. It seems fine for the
 > other 4 languages.
 >
 > ```
 > Chinese: 这是一个测试
 > Japanese: これはテストです
 > Korean : 이것은 시험이다
 > Arabic: هذا اختبار
 > Russian: это проверка
 > Hebrew: זה מבחן
 > Greek: αυτό είναι ένα τεστ
 > Punjabi: ਇਹ ਇੱਕ ਟੈਸਟ ਹੈ
 > ```
 >
 > Is there anything we can modify in `share/registry/main.xcd` file like
 > what this user wrote in this thread:
 > 
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545
 > 
<https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-default-fontsize-without-gui/22545> 

 > ?
 >

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Ilmari