Status of CJK language support and activities in LibreOffice 2024
Shinji Enoki is a member of LibreOffice Japanese Team since 2011. He is a member of The Document Foundation since 2014. He focuses on planning of events and sometimes on QA activities e.g. bug triage. His other community activities is a volunteer staff of Japan UNIX Society and a volunteer staff of KANSAI OPEN SOURCE, hobby mapper on OpenStreetMap, etc. He is freelance, and he is developing LibreOffice support business with iCRAFT Corp. I couldn't migrate my account. My old account is below,: https://events.opensuse.org/users/18554
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Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) users need different features than other languages. Language and culture dependent features and usage are important for productivity software such as LibreOffice.
This talk will introduce some recent problems encountered in the CJK user environment of LibreOffice and how to improve issues. Patterns of CJK language specific problems can be common across different software. Therefore, it may be applicable to other smartphones and desktop apps as well.
The LibreOffice project is an aimed at multilingualism, as stated in The Document Foundation’s “Our Values” of “Our Next Decade Manifesto” that anyone can translate so that everyone can use it in their mother tongue. https://www.documentfoundation.org/pdf/tdf_manifesto.pdf
However, LibreOffice developers are mostly in Europe, and in order to use them conveniently in other languages, those who understand those languages need to solve the problem. LibreOffice's CJK and problems unique to the Japanese environment are various such as vertical writing, external characters, phonetic, currency and date notation.
Sometimes CJK regression bugs occur in the LibreOffice project. It is important to strengthen user’s feedback loop approach. We have to be able to explain it to people from different cultures. It is also important that CJK people actually try to fix the CJK bugs.
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 and 2019, I introduced typical LibreOffice’s CJK issues. In this talk, I will present some of the major recent issues in CJK environment. I will also introduce QA activities in Japanees community and TDF’s efforts in non-European languages.
- Date:
- 2024 November 2 - 11:45
- Duration:
- 40 min
- Room:
- Room B
- Conference:
- openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024
- Language:
- en
- Track:
- Cross Distro
- Difficulty:
- Easy
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- Start Time:
- 2024 November 2 11:45
- Room:
- Room A
- We are openSUSE.Asia Summit
- Start Time:
- 2024 November 2 12:05
- Room:
- Room A