Fonts change weirdly when using Slovak keyboard layout

[Hot_Ice]

Hallo all

whenever we write a Document in Word (the version that is shipped with
Office 2004, after installing all of Microsoft's AutoUpdates and after
installing all AutoUpdates for Tiger) there is a weird behaviour: If we
used Swiss German keyboard layout and then change the keyboard layout
(with apple-space) the font changes to "Times New Roman" without any
reason, even if we changed the keyboard layout within a word the
begining of the word would start normal e.g. "Arial" but the rest would
become "Times New Roman". By the way, I don't think it's a font issue,
as I can change the font afterwards and everything seem ok (even the
foreign characters).

Do you know what the matter is and how we could solve the problem?

I'd appreciate every answer

Greetings from Switzerland

 

[Priyanka Singhal [MSFT]]

Hi ,
I tried to repro this , but could not . I tried with English OS .
could you tell me exactly what font you were using in Swiss German layout
and what it changed to
and are you using English OS .
Thanks,
Priyanka

 

[Hot_Ice]

I used "Arial" with Swiss German layout. As soon as I change to Slovak
it would always return to "Times New Roman" (even if I explicitly
choose "Arial", it changes to "Times New Roman" as soon, as I type the
first character). I use OS X Tiger with the German language for the
GUI. Besides my Office GUI is in German as well. Yesterday I installed
the updates for Tiger and the problem still exists. I double checked if
there were Microsoft's updates to Office, but I seem to have installed
all of them.

P.S.: I just remeber, that first some fonts like "Monotype Corsiva"
didn't show the slovak characters, therefore I installed the Fonts from
a Windows (Office 2003) system. Now I can actually display slovak
characters with "Monotype Corsiva", but I have to do the following:
First I have to write the Text with the Slovak layout (Office changes
to "Times New Roman"), then I can choose "Monotype Corsiva". If I do
so, the foreign characters show up correctly. Do you think my issue
might be caused by installing the fonts from a Windows system?

 

[daniel.fabian]

It seems to work like this: Whenever I choose a layout with the script
"Central European" or "Cyrillic" word changes the font to Times New
Roman. Maybe word thinks it cannot handle "Central European". By the
way choosing "slovenian" which is a "Unicode" script works fine
eventhough the character we would need are the same.

For the purpose of testing I installed my mac with english language and
it behaves the same way