Arial font in Openoffice displays wrong german characters

andreas
thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

could you please restate the problem in english
thank you

I've translated it for the reporter.

This bug appears to be corrected in Ubuntu hardy openoffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3 so I am marking it as Fix Released. If you still have this problem after upgrading then please feel free to reopen it.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

I just upgraded gutsy to hardy (beta) on a test server which includes openoffice.org-writer/hardy 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1.
I'm using soffice -headless -accept="socket,port=8101;urp" + pyuno to open an odt file and export it to pdf.
Only the 'ü' is broken. ß works fine as well as Ü and ü in bold or italic.

I'm not sure which status of the bug is apropriate - but "fix released" seems wrong (at least for me) ;-)

I can't reproduce this bug, if you can then please include a copy of the odt file and the resulting pdf. I am including an example output pdf. Do you happen to not actually have the Arial font installed, and thus its falling back to some other font that is defective?

The Hungarian charachters won't display eighter.

There is a bug where fonts get replaced incorrectly, which might be what you are seeing. It is already filed upstream and hopefully will be fixed for OOo 3.1. I can't reproduce the bug you are seeing in a simple case at least though. I have attached a sample screenshot, its not the exact same phrase since I can't easily enter those characters on my keyboard, I just cut and paste the title of your screenshot.

Chris

using Openoffice 2.4.1 in intrepid, this is not fixed.
Open ooo, write the German word for "Street": Straße
Select it and change the font to Arial.
-> it becomes Strafle - even if you make a pdf file of it.

I have this problem since some updates last week now using version Version: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 with 8.04
I have one document that gets displayed correctly (document A) and one not (document B)...
If I open B first and then open A (having both open) both documents aren't displayed correctly.
If I open A first and the B, both are displayed correctly.
It seems to be a very special bug.

I have this problem since some updates last week now using version Version: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 with 8.10
I have one document that gets displayed correctly (document A) and one not (document B)...
If I open B first and then open A (having both open) both documents aren't displayed correctly.
If I open A first and the B, both are displayed correctly.
It seems to be a very special bug.

rac,

Do you still have this problem with the version at the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive or in Ubuntu 9.04?

Chris

@chris
Sorry I made some confusions with the ubuntu versions as I have a couple of machines...
The machine that has this problem is an Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) with the latest official updates and I'm using openoffice version 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 from the normal repository.
On a Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 but not the latest updates this problem doesn't exist and 1 week ago this problem didn't exist on my main machine too.
Because of that I think it must be a problem with a patch that was released few days ago.

The workaround I posted above worked for me but shows that its not easy to reproduce :-/

Because of the nature of my workaround, I think that this document has some hidden chars in it and this interrupts the normal startup of openoffice but not that it crashes...

If I can do some logs for you, just tell me how and I do my best.