Did you check the graphics category for any Japanese fonts?
Have you tried installing the “libreoffice_ja” package from HaikuDepot (in the “All packages” tab)?
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I think I installed all the Japanese fonts I could find in the HaikuDepot.
In fact, the thing that I was the most impressed by when I booted up Haiku the first time last week was how good the fonts looked.
I think that I probably need to remove Libreoffice’s Japanese interface package and use it in English interface unless there’s some way of setting the UI fonts that Libreoffice uses.
It works here. I’ve installed “libreoffice_ja”, set “Japanese” as language in the LibreOffice options and set the system font in Haiku’s Appearance preferences to “Noto Sans CJK JP” (which should be included in the Beta5).
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In older 32-bit hardware, it’s either installing Haiku or let that computer gathering dust in the attic. Some GNU/Linux distributions still support 32- bit (and some of them are lightweight enough as well), but that’s basically it. FreeBSD is still an option, but not for long, as the 32-bit branch will be dropped in the next major release. Among the few available options to revive an old 32-bit machine, Haiku is the obvious choice in the long term.
But there is another reason to use Haiku 32-bit, especially for software developers. Even if the application is “bit-agnostic” there are some rough corners that need a 32-bit machine for checking. For example, C’s long integers are not the same in 32-bit and 64-bit. Despite any common sense that would suggest the opposite, there is no universal length for long (not even for simple int, in some cases). That affects even more strict languages, if the application uses C-interoperability for access to low-level C libraries.
There are other differences as well, and there are workarounds, but good luck fixing everything without a 32-bit installation handy. So, if you want your application to run in 32-bit as well, you need a 32-bit installation to check it, even if the application itself has nothing bit-specific.
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