Hi,

I am attaching three screenshots to illustrate the (Chinese) font garbling
problem in StarOffice 8 running in Solaris Express:

Screenshot 1 shows that some of the Chinese characters are very badly garbled (&
randomly misplaced) in the File dialog window. The actual words are shown in the
main (document) window. System Application font: sans; Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Screenshot 2 shows that the Chinese characters are now CORRECTLY shown in the
File dialog window. Again, the actual words (same as in Screenshot 1) are shown
in the main (document) window. System Application font: FZMingTi; Locale:
en_US.UTF-8

Screenshot 3 shows that the Chinese characters are very badly garbled in the
File dialog window. The actual words are shown in the main (document) window.
System Application font: sans; Locale: zh_CN.UTF-8

Comparing Screenshots 1 and 2, it shows that the garbling problem disappears
after I change the preference of system application font from the default sans
to FZMingTi (I believe any Chinese-based fonts also should do). However, this
change makes English characters look ugly.  Font garbling problem also
disappears when I use FZHeiTi.  Using this font makes the English characters
look more or less acceptable.

Comparing Screenshots 1 and 3, it shows that changing the login locale to
unicode-based Chinese does not solve the font garbling problem.

Also as I mentioned in separate thread(s), I did not observe such a font
garbling problem in other programs, nor in running SarOffice under Solaris 10. I
ran into similar problem in Linux, but this problem appears to have been solved
there (at least in SuSE 10.1, or maybe 10.2).

These screen shots were taken running StarOffice 8 in Solaris Express Developers
Edition 79b, everything was under the default conditions.  I have observed (&
reported in the OpenSolaris.org i18n forum) the same problems in all versions of
Solaris Express (including SXCE 81), as well as from running OpenOffice.org in
Solaris Express, up to & inclusive of version 2.3.1.  I have been using Solaris
(Express) desktops for more than two years.

The only situation where I did not see Chinese font garbling, when running under
system default conditions, is when I ran StarSuite 8 in the Chinese locale. 
However, even in the Chinese locale, the font garbling problem would re-appear
if I change the default system font to, say, Arial.

Note: Since I could find the tab to include the above-mentioned screenshots,
please go to OpenSolaris.org i18n forum to download the screenshots:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52412&tstart=0