According to the comments in the openoffice ebuild, by setting the env variable LANGUAGE=? will enable compiling openoffice with the specified language support. So I did the following: # LANGUAGE="CHINTRAD" emerge openoffice This should provide traditional Chinese support in openoffice. I logged in with the following env variables set: LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 Under gnome, most menus were displayed in traditional Chinese. Upon loading oowriter, the menus displayed a lot of squared blocks instead of proper Chinese characters. In /opt/OpenOffice.org/share/fonts/truetype, I only saw: opens___.ttf fonts.dir fonts_dir.global which leads me to believe that oowriter could not load any Chinese fonts for the menus. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LANGUAGE="CHINTRAD" emerge openoffice 2. Start any openoffice programs e.g. oowriter, oocalc 3. The menus show blocks of squares instead of traditional Chinese characters. Expected Results: Any openoffice programs should show proper traditional Chinese characters if the emerge is done with LANGUAGE="CHINTRAD". The fix I used was: # cd /opt/OpenOffice.org/share/fonts/truetype # rm * # ln -s /usr/share/fonts/ttf/chinese/hkscs/* . # ln -s fonts.dir fonts_dir.global Now starting any openoffice programs in any locale will display proper traditional Chinese characters. I think the ebuild should perform the following: 1. If LANGUAGE is set to CHINTRAD, check if any traditional Chinese truetype fonts are installed. 2. If yes, create links in /opt/OpenOffice.org/share/fonts/truetype to add traditional Chinese truetype fonts and modify fonts.dir and fonts_dir.global to add these Chinese fonts. 3. If no, emerge any traditional Chinese truetype fonts as a dependency.
Patch for bug #44944 (openoffice-bin) should solve this problem too, but I haven't tested (don't have time and space to compile OOo).
OOo now uses LINGUAS for localization, additionally the chinese translations now depend on arphicfonts, so this should be gone. Please reopen, if this problem persists
