Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 35011
quotation marks do not render properly in courier font
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:46 UTC
System: windows 2000 professional OO.org 1.1.3 (did a fresh install this morning) J2SDK 1.4.2_03 bug: The quotation marks, "", do not display properly in courier font in Writer. They do work in Calc, though. Steps to reproduce bug: 1. open openoffice.org. 2. click File -> new -> Text Document. 3. Loading a text document loads the default toolbars at the top of the window. One has a drop-down menu with "Times New Roman" in it. Click on this drop-down menu and change "Times New Roman" to "Courier". 4. Click in the text area and type a few quotation marks. They will appear as dot characters. Like this --> . Interestingly enough, if you do the same thing in Calc, the quotes work just fine. I will attach a few screenshots so you can see what I mean. -Jonathan
Created attachment 18142 [details] OO.org writer doc used to create screenshot
Created attachment 18143 [details] screenshot of OO.org rendering file: quotes_dont_work_in_courier.sxw
Created attachment 18144 [details] OO.org calc doc with the same text
Created attachment 18145 [details] screenshot of OO.org rendering file: quotes_work_fine_in_calc.sxc
Sorry about the butt ugly coloring in the bmps. :) I reduced the resolution to 256 colors so they're smaller. -Jonathan
MRU->US: pls have a look.
us->hdu: any ideas?
Writer's autocorrection changes the "normal quotation marks" to typographical quotation marks U+201X and the Courier font available on this system doesn't support these unicodes. Courier is one of the few surviving bitmap fonts on the Win32 platform and since we don't have access to the font file we cannot calculate the unicode coverage it provides. So when typgographical quote is requested that is not supported by the font we don't know that the glyph fallback feature could be triggered. HDU->submitter: as a quick workaround I suggest to change Courier to Courier New or to disable the "typographical quote autocorrection" in the "Custom Quotes" tabpage in the Tools->AutoCorrection dialog... It would probably be a good idea to no longer support these ancient bitmap fonts on the Win32 platform...
US->US: need to clarify with UserEx whether we could abandon win bitmap fonts.
US->FT: can we abandon/ignore Bitmap fonts on Windows platforms for the future?
FT: Targeted, priorised and re-assigned to default feature request owner.
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