Dear Herbert,
For changing just OOo's UI size the setting at > Tools->Options->OpenOffice->View->UserInterfaceScaling > might be what you are looking for. Yes, it really work. However, except the characters, the size of other things, such as the page, is changed as well. That would not be expected by the users. > > Ah, you were talking about the default fonts. The best solution is to > select the UI default font to one that supports all user interface texts. Is > this is really not possible? If not, then the "glyph fallback" feature kicks > in as a last resort measure to display the text. Since chinese fonts are > commonly available the glyph fallback for chinese text probably works > usually quite well. > > If the situation becomes more common, that the UI texts come from several > scripts which each have different font requirements, then a new feature > "multi-script-UI" could be implemented: having multiple UI-default-fonts > fonts and switching between them depending on which UI text is current. That > feature would be non-trivial though. Are there other localization projects > that would benefit from this feature? If not I'd suggest to create a font by > merging all the required scripts into one font and use that one as default > font for the localization project. I think the feature, multi-script-UI, is really beneficial for minority languages in the world. I utilize Tibetan as an example to explain the problem. Actually, there is not a real OS developed specially for Tibetan yet. So most Tibetan native speakers have to use English or Chinese Windows on their computers up to now. Usually, multilingual characters including Tibetan, English or Chinese are mixed in the UI elements of OOo and other applications, for example, a textbox containing path information may includes multilingual characters. A font merging all the required scripts characters is a shortcut solution for one specific language. Unfortunately, there's few that kind of fonts available for Tibetan at least so far. Some localization mechanism for multi-script-UI would be a thorough way to solve the problem. Thank you for your suggestion. Best regards, Yanmin
