Missing currency symbol in language settings

wadiuwant · Red Pill Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 7

I can set the language setting to Hebrew, but the currency symbol ₪ is replaced by a box.

How do I get the right currency symbol to display?

schlesi · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:10 am Post subject:

Did you select a hebrew font?

Thomas

wadiuwant · Red Pill Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 7

Thanks for the reply, Thomas.

OK, so after starting Open Office, I select Tools>Option.
The Options screen opens.

If I select Language Settings>Languages, the Default Currency field shows ILS Hebrew but the sheqel symbol displays a box.

If I have to select a Font, does that mean I have to select OpenOffice.org>Fonts and select a font in the Fonts field or are you referring to something else.

If it's a font in the Font field, which font would make the symbol appear in the Default Currency field. If not, I still need help.

Richard

OPENSTEP · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject:

What's the appropriate Unicode character for it? I was looking for u20AA but didn't see any valid character in the default interface fonts. The interface font itself would need to have the glyph for the unicode character for it to be rendered, else it'd be rendered as a box.

Once you find a font that has the right glyph, change the font mapping for "Andale Sans UI" to that font and that should let the glyph appear correctly.

ed

wadiuwant · Red Pill Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 7

But I don't seem to have Andale Sans UI.

Richard

OPENSTEP · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

Ah, no the trick is that "Andale Sans UI" is the first font that the hardcoded mystic incantation buried in OpenOffice.org searches for when looking for the font to use for the user interface. I actually have no clue which platform Andale Sans UI exists on (though I'd guess windows). It also probably doesn't have the unicode character you need.

Since there's no explicit setting for the user interface font, the workaround is to use the internal font substitution. By using the font with the unicode character you need as the substitute for Andale Sans UI, you should be able to replace the user interface font with one that suits your needs.

Beware, though, this solution may only extend to the menus you see in the interface...you need to also be using a font with the appropriate unicode character in all of your documents for the proper currency symbol to appear.

ed

wadiuwant · Red Pill Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 7

That was the clue I needed. I've used Lucida Sans Regular. It's native to Jaguar, but is not there in Panther. Fortunately, I installed Panther using Archive and Install, so I still have that font.

You're really The One.

Thanks
Richard

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

At some point I'm going to spend time working on our 1.1.1 localizer. This is great info as it indicates I may need to look at applying changes to local configurations for the default font. Have any Hebrew Panther users found a default font that works?

ed

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject: