2011/3/9 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Would the export to ODF work for languages that are not in the Latin script??
Why wouldn't it? ODF uses UTF-8 internally...
UTF-8 itself is not enough. Everything must be thoroughly tested.
I tried to export the English Wikipedia article Holam, which has many Hebrew and IPA words.
Export to PDF completely disregards RTL. (Some work is being done about it and if i recall correctly, Wikimedia Israel is involved.)
Export to ODF also has some RTL issues and it doesn't preserve the fonts of the original article and this may render words in foreign languages, IPA etc. unreadable.
Export to openZIM produced the best result. I read it on the Kiwix reader for Windows. Directionality was OK, the right font was used for Hebrew, but a wrong one for IPA (it may have been hard for the converter to understand it, because in the English Wikipedia IPA font is applied by JS).
I will report these bugs (if they aren't reported already).