Re: Does OpenOffice 3.0 handle unicode?

From: Javier SOLA (lists@khmeros.info)
Date: Sun Mar 22 2009 - 22:41:02 CST

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    Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
    > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 17:41, Petr Tomasek <tomasek@etf.cuni.cz> wrote:
    >
    >
    >> Can someone, please, confirm whether the new version of OpenOffice
    >> can handle unicode? OpenOffice 2.0 unfortunatelly can handle only
    >> the BMP, while I need characters from the SMP.
    >>
    >
    > OOo 3.0 does handle non-BMP characters under Linux for me.
    >
    > It ignores ligature tables in the font though, so complex scripts
    > might have problems (unless some concrete scripts are special cased).
    >
    Supported complex scripts (most of them) and their ligatures are handled
    correctly in OpenOffice by ICU.

    Javier

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