Wrong Symbols in Special Characters

Do you still have this problem with openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.04?

Yes as of last night. I will double check to see if there are any updates that I haven't received that might have somehow cured the problem. Maybe a fresh install could fix it if I'm the only one with this issue.

Can you attach a screenshot of the problem to the launchpad bug report?

Thanks,

Chris

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Re-opened with specific information on an occurrence of what seems to be the identical bug.

RFW:

"Re-opened with specific information on an occurrence of what seems to be the identical bug."

Yes that would be helpful had you done that...

Using the font Everson Mono (downloadable from http://www.evertype.com/emono/ )

In Open Office, Insert > Special Character .... the following characters are [usually] not displayed correctly in the pick list and are not inserted correctly:

U+00DF0, Latin capital eth (a hyphen or dash of some sort is displayed and inserted)

U+00E0, Latin small letter a with grave

U+00F0, Latin small letter eth

U+00F8, Latin small letter o with stroke (a macron or overscore such as U+00AF is displayed)

Font Forge, Character Map, and Lotus Symphony all handle these characters from this font correctly.

Further comments: this bug is erratic, and it appears in some fonts with different details.

In the attached spreadsheet, highlight cells from C4 to J38, then use Format>Cells>Font to assign a different font to these cells.

I suspect that the Unicode font-fallback mechanism is involved, because characters unprintable in the selected font are displayed using another font. Try Bitstream Vera Sans for some remarkable screwups.

The first "wrong" character is listed as U+00DF0. It should be U+00D0.

I should add that this bug is causing me real grief, as I am trying to document what appear to be hitherto-undocumented Georgian letters as the first step to possibly incorporating them into Unicode.. Lotus Symphony turns out to be rather brain dead about generating PDF files, Open Office is okay in that regard but then hits me with the display of improper characters.

IOW, this isn't just an academic exercise!

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

As far as I can tell this bug appears to be fixed in the new 3.0.1 debs.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Chris,

You are correct that the bug is now fixed... at least with my computer. Thanks for keeping tabs on this one.

Nathan Blair

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Chris Cheney
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:47 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 238731] Re: Wrong Symbols in Special Characters

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

As far as I can tell this bug appears to be fixed in the new 3.0.1 debs.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Wrong Symbols in Special Characters
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Status in “openoffice.org” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I'm running AMD64 Ubuntu Hardy. When I look at the insert special characters dialog box, some of the symbols in the grid don't correspond with the preview or what is added to the actual document. Specifically, I'm using DejaVu Sans, with Subset= Latin-1. Examples are the degree symbol shows "i". The section symbol is the wrong symbol, not sure the name of the symbol it is showing though. The German double S symbol actually is the "section" symbol. There are two paragraph symbols on the grid. The first, (#166) is actually generates the symbol above the backslash (broken vertical line).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 9 19:37:21 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic x86_64

No, problem seems to be fixed.

Using OpenOffice.org 3.0.0
OOO300m9 (Build:9358)

Thanks.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Chris Cheney <email address hidden> wrote:

> Do you still have this problem with the new version of OOo in the ppa at
> https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenoffice-pkgs/+archive>?
>
> As far as I can tell this bug appears to be fixed in the new 3.0.1 debs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Cheney
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> Wrong Symbols in Special Characters
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238731
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "openoffice.org" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: openoffice.org
>
> I'm running AMD64 Ubuntu Hardy. When I look at the insert special
> characters dialog box, some of the symbols in the grid don't correspond with
> the preview or what is added to the actual document. Specifically, I'm
> using DejaVu Sans, with Subset= Latin-1. Examples are the degree symbol
> shows "i". The section symbol is the wrong symbol, not sure the name of the
> symbol it is showing though. The German double S symbol actually is the
> "section" symbol. There are two paragraph symbols on the grid. The first,
> (#166) is actually generates the symbol above the backslash (broken vertical
> line).
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Jun 9 19:37:21 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
> PackageArchitecture: amd64
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: openoffice.org
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic x86_64
>

Closing this bug since it seems to be fixed. Reopen if necessary.