Comment 8 for bug 9093

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

I am reopening this bug report with new info.

Not all fonts contain Greek glyphs, so font substitution takes place.
This is the case with "Nimbus Roman No9 L" and OOo; it's the default font in OOo
but does not have glyphs for Greek, so OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 appears to take them
from an Asian-CJK font (probably "Baekmuk Batang" or "AR PL Mingti2L Big5").

The above Asian fonts are not related to "gsfonts", mentioned in this bug report.

I do not know how to tell OOo to prefer FreeSans over the Asian fonts, for the
Greek language, in an elegant way.

A quick&nasty fix would be to
1) Click Tools/Options/Fonts/Font Substitution and setup a font substitution,
for "Nimbus Roman No9 L"
to be substituted with "FreeSans". However, this will substitute Nimbus in
english as well to FreeSans.

I am adding some screenshots below to demonstrate.