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Not considering as this should be filed as a bug report.

Support OTF fonts in the Studio editor

It would be great if the Studio Editor could also have support for OTF fonts. Currently, if you have such a font installed and it's used in a file you're translating, then the characters are garbled:

You can change the setting of File > Options > Editor > Sidy-by-side Editor to "Show all tags but do not show formatting" to see the characters as a workaround. This removes all formatting though so you end up turning this option off and on whenever you have to open a document that uses OTF fonts.

SDL Support suggested to use True Type Fonts (TTF) instead. Of course that would work but the reality is that translators just have to deal with whatever documents they receive for translation and that includes documents with Open Type fonts.

Rian van der Borgt
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  • Hard to believe but true: Windows never delivered a font component and editing component that was good enough for us to use so we had to come up with our own extension mechanisms to support localization matters well (such as the semi-WYSIWYG). Those mechanisms are of course based on the Windows tech stack. In any event, we have tried other Open Type fonts such as "Sikta Display" which work just well. So whenever we see this, typically the fonts are just buggy. See also gateway.sdl.com/.../communityknowledge.

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  • Hard to believe but true: Windows never delivered a font component and editing component that was good enough for us to use so we had to come up with our own extension mechanisms to support localization matters well (such as the semi-WYSIWYG). Those mechanisms are of course based on the Windows tech stack. In any event, we have tried other Open Type fonts such as "Sikta Display" which work just well. So whenever we see this, typically the fonts are just buggy. See also gateway.sdl.com/.../communityknowledge.

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