I must be suffering from the same bug. Here is how I described it, for whatever it is worth:
Recently (as of about 2 months, perhaps when I upgraded to Gutsy... not sure) my openoffice files with extended ascii characters, àéë etc, have been displaying as weird characters: ç is displayed as Á; à as a double cross, É as ... (ellipsis) and so on. This seems to only happen in openoffice documents, and only the text part, not the menus. And, sometimes some characters display properly, then it go back to weird characters. Some more weirdness: If I bold the character, it becomes normal. All characters display correctly under gedit, in the same font (times new roman) I reinstalled ms core fonts, and core files for openoffice. At first I thought I had fixed it, but it is back again (after reboot). In openoffice menus display correctly; the only problem is in the text, whether created on the spot or created years/months/days ago (not a text entry problem). If I paste à from another application, it is transformed into the wonky double cross; unless I bold it, in which case revoilà à. This is a nasty bug, since it affects all my documents! Even when I output a file as pdf. Right now the only work-around is to bold special characters or put them in another font (!). And then change them back when this is finally resolved.... It is a mystery why this would only affect openoffice. -- Special characters are not displayed correctly, fonts dissappear from the menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
