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JKT
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:58 am Post subject: Is Israel about to give OOo on the Mac a boost? |
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Article at the Register: Israel slams the door on Microsoft
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"The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative."
It is largely the lack of support for Hebrew in Office v.X that has sparked this.
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OPENSTEP
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I saw this article myself. Here's the conundrum:
1) OOo X11 1.0.3 does not support right-to-left fonts (e.g. Hebrew).
2) OOo 1.1 does, but is not yet beyond a prerelease version on OS X.
3) OOo X11 on OS X does not contain code to properly interpret font encodings for Hebrew Mac fonts. Currently attempting to install Mac Hebrew fonts will cause crashes in freetype when opening the Mac hebrew fonts on startup (see the X11 support forum for confirmation/explanation).
If folks from Israel want to help out on 2 and 3, definitely volunteer  The fun thing to test immediately is whether the 1.1 alpha X11 release can render Unicode Hebrew documents properly when Windows encoded TrueType fonts are installed with OOo.
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Ed,
Do they still cause a crash? I'm using Raanaa from the Jag second CD and its a straight .ttf file. But of course I've got my funky Freetype from CVS that has the fix for that little double-free() crash. I requested that Apple bundle an updated freetype with whatever their next distro of X11 would be and someone said "yes" so I assume Panther will be OK in this respect. We may need to point users to a new freetype though for 10.2 and an older XFree86 install.
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OPENSTEP
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Last I knew they did cause a crash, but this was on a machine using the stock freetype build, not the one with a double free, and if IIRC it was an OpenTTFont issue. I haven't tested yet against panther, but hope to do so soon. It's only like, what, four more days?
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jakeOSX
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jakeOSX
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Well, in case you didn't read, Israel is passing out OO.o disks like AOL all over to help bring the software to everyone... THere wasn't meantion if it was just the PC or if X11 was included too.
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| jakeOSX wrote: | Well, in case you didn't read, Israel is passing out OO.o disks like AOL all over to help bring the software to everyone... THere wasn't meantion if it was just the PC or if X11 was included too.
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There where plans to do that, but nothing really happened  |
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