2024-10-10, 16:30–17:00 (Europe/Luxembourg), C1.05.12
LibreOffice has various CJK features. They sometimes break, should be reported and resolved by CJK users. In this talk, I will introduce some reported and fixed CJK bugs in the past year, some not fixed CJK bugs, explain the current state of the JA community and our future challenges. And I'll also talk about plans for next year's Asia Conference.
The LibreOffice project is aimed at multilingualism, as stated in The Document Foundation's "Our Values" of "Our Next Decade Manifesto" that anyone can translate so that everyone can use it in their mother tongue.
However, LibreOffice developers are mostly in Europe, and in order to use them conveniently in other languages, those who understand those languages need to solve the problem. LibreOffice's CJK and problems unique to the Japanese environment are various such as vertical writing, external characters, phonetic, currency and date notation.
CJK bugs are often caused by regressions and tend to have similar problems. Japanese community members and users sometimes submit bug reports and triage. That feedback loop is important. In recent years, Japanese community members have been changing, it is necessary to find ways to maintain and strengthen the feedback loop. Also, a full-time developer joined TDF this year, increasing the chances of CJK bugs being fixed. We need to capitalize on that potential.
In this year's talk, As the first, I will introduce some reported and fixed CJK bugs in the past year. Secondly, introduce some not fixed old CJK bugs. Thirdly, explain the current state of the JA community and our future challenges. Fourth, I would like to provide some context and ask for ideas regarding next year's Asia Conference.
Shinji Enoki is a member of LibreOffice Japanese Team since 2011. He is a member of The Document Foundation since 2014, Membership Committee deputy since 2020. He manages events, organizes the Japanese community, answers questions on Ask, and occasionally does QA activities. His other community activities is a volunteer staff of Japan UNIX Society and KANSAI OPEN SOURCE, OpenStreetMap and more. He is freelance, and he is developing LibreOffice support business with iCRAFT Corp.