[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Title:
Glyphs for space and basic punctuation not substituted from other
fonts
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
I recently noticed a regression in how LibreOffice Writer handles font
substitutions for basic ASCII punctuation including space (U+0020).
For test purposes, I wrote a document in the Old Hungarian script and
used a font called "OldHungarian" from https://github.com/OldHungarian
/old-hungarian-font to display the text. The font is designed to cover
only the characters in the Old Hungarian block (U+10C80 to U+10CFF)
plus a couple of punctuation marks that might not be available in all
fonts such as ⹁ (U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA) and ⹂ (U+2E42 DOUBLE LOW-
REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK). The font doesn't include glyphs for
anything else such as basic Latin letters or Latin punctuation.
Normally, LibreOffice is supposed to find substitute glyphs for
characters that are not included in the current font but for some
reason it fails to do so with the OldHungarian font for all the basic
punctuation from U+0020 (SPACE) to U+002F (SOLIDUS), U+003A (COLON) to
U+0040 (COMMERCIAL AT) and U+007B (LEFT CURLY BRACKET) to U+007E
(TILDE). Latin letters a-z and A-Z as well as numbers 0-9 work fine.
See the attached screenshot, where I've included a sentence in English
in the middle of Old Hungarian text and set OldHungarian as the font
for the whole selection. English letters show up ok as well as spaces
in between them. Spaces and punctuation between words in the Old
Hungarian script show up as boxes. I don't use Old Hungarian on a
daily basis, so I don't know exactly when this regression happened but
I'm sure things worked as expected when I submitted bug #1804657
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1804657 for
6.1.3.2 (installed as a snap). Now the problem occurs on both 6.0.7.3
installed from Ubuntu 18.04 repositories and on 6.3.2.2 installed as a
snap from the stable channel (relase 151).
For the regular install:
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
libreoffice-writer:amd64/bionic-security 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
uptodate
libreoffice-writer:
Installed: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
Candidate: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
Version table:
*** 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 500
500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
Version: 6.0.7.3
Build ID: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
For the snap:
libreoffice 6.3.2.2 151 stable
canonical✓ -
Version: 6.3.2.2
Build ID: libreoffice-6.3.2.2-snap1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-64.73-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 7 16:13:01 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (966 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-31 (493 days ago)
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