I have a strange problem with PDFs made with Openoffice on Linux (Ubuntu
10.10). Wherever there is an en rule (the short dash used in a span of
numbers: Unicode 2013), in the PDF it takes the shape of (or is replaced
with) a dash (Unicode 2014), though it retains the spacing of the
narrower character, so that the dash runs through the following
character. Everything is fine in the original Openoffice document: it
happens only when it’s exported as a PDF. And the result is the same
whether I export directly from within Openoffice or print to file as
Postscript and then create the PDF with ps2pdf.

Obviously the prime suspect would seem to be the font. So I tried with
several different fonts, to discover that some do and some don’t. Then I
tried the same fonts in different applications, such as Gedit, and the
PDFs are all perfect, for all fonts.

I wonder if anyone can offer any clues.


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