On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:07:34PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 11/17/2016 01:00 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > I’m looking into bug 103944, which is mainly about handling so-called > > symbol fonts. > > > > The bullets in the bug document use the “Symbol” font from Windows, > > which has “symbol” cmap subtable that maps characters from Private Use > > Area to its own glyphs. Because the document uses PUA symbols, without > > this font installed or another font that has the exact same glyphs for > > PUA characters we can get anything from boxes to totally unrelated > > glyphs. > > > > Now, AFAIK, all glyphs in “Symbol” font have proper characters in > > Unicode (and the font itself supports them as well, in its non-symbol > > cmap subtable), so my question is what is the expected behaviour here, > > map the PUA to proper Unicode characters? Expect the font or a > > compatible one to be installed and usable? Bundle a compatible font? > > Another interesting question would be whether LO makes it too easy to create > a document with PUA instead of "proper" characters (by deceivingly offering > PUA characters in "Insert - Special Character...", say), but looking at > <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103944> that bug .doc > at least is presumably created with something else?
I’m mostly concerned about “standardized” PUA like bullets and other stuff generated by other office suits, not user input. If I user is entering PUA directly, then it is not a bug when the original font is missing and he gets garbage, he (or the document author) brought it on himself. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
