Ubuntu
abiword package

abiword mishandles unicode

Bug #260173 reported by njh on 2008-08-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	abiword (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: abiword

open a new abiword document.

paste this hot beverage into your document "☕".

I see ° but if I reselect and copy that and paste it back into a gtk entry or this firefox edit window I get my beverage back.

Choice of font does not change this.

I think it is using '°' as the missing glyph marker, but why would I want to see that, rather than the glyph I pasted?

hurst@linckia:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
hurst@linckia:~$ apt-cache policy abiword
abiword:
  Installed: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3
  Version table:
*** 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.4.6-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

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njh (njh-njhurst) wrote on 2008-08-21:

A file which demonstrates the bug. Edit (2.4 KiB, application/x-abiword)

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote on 2008-11-07:

This symbol in Abiword 2.6.4 can be displayed by hiliting the character, then changing the font to webdings. In Hardy with Abiword 2.4.6, you must install the msttcorefonts package to get the webdings font. Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Changed in abiword:
status:	New → Invalid

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Tim Cole (tcole) wrote on 2008-11-08:

This was an actual bug (Abiword failed to perform font substitution for missing glyphs), but it has been fixed in Interepid.

Changed in abiword:
status:	Invalid → Fix Released

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njh (njh-njhurst) wrote on 2008-11-08:

You are wrong. Changing the font to webdings displays another random symbol, it does not display the correct unicode character. You can equally test this bug with a random chinese character or mathematical symbol.

However, the bug does appear to be fixed in intrepid, this bug can be marked closed (but not invalid).