Issue 43924 - some characters display as question marks but print correctly
Summary: some characters display as question marks but print correctly
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 680m79
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ulf.stroehler
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-03-02 16:45 UTC by bulbul
Modified: 2005-07-26 15:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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minimal test case document (6.40 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
2005-03-02 16:47 UTC, bulbul 		no flags Details
PDF of test case (characters display correctly) (16.66 KB, application/pdf)
2005-03-14 05:22 UTC, bulbul 		no flags Details
pspfontcache, as requested. (38.03 KB, text/txt)
2005-03-14 05:25 UTC, bulbul 		no flags Details
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Description bulbul 2005-03-02 16:45:55 UTC 
Under OOo 1.9.79, some extended Latin characters (ones that i use often!) have
the following behavior:

1. They print correctly.
2. They are displayed as question marks in the editor.
3. They display as question marks in the Insert Character dialog.

This is a regression, since the same characters print and display correctly in
the same font (Lucidasans) in OOo 1.1.1.

I will attach a sample document.
Comment 1 bulbul 2005-03-02 16:47:36 UTC 
Created attachment 23257 [details]
minimal test case document
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2005-03-03 09:38:02 UTC 
Reassigned to US.
Comment 3 ulf.stroehler 2005-03-10 17:10:31 UTC 
Can not reproduce.
Pls. export the document you attached to PDF and also attach it. Thanks.
Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2005-03-10 17:14:04 UTC 
Additionally in 
$HOME/.openoffice.org1.9.79/user/psprint
you'll find the file "pspfontcache". Pls. also attach this file. Thx.
Comment 5 bulbul 2005-03-14 05:22:15 UTC 
Created attachment 23787 [details]
PDF of test case (characters display correctly)
Comment 6 bulbul 2005-03-14 05:25:26 UTC 
Created attachment 23788 [details]
pspfontcache, as requested.
Comment 7 bulbul 2005-03-14 05:27:15 UTC 
Note that in the PDF version of the test case, all of the characters display
correctly.

I believe that all of the characters in question are provided from another font.
That is, they are all cases of font substitution.
Comment 8 ulf.stroehler 2005-07-26 15:04:15 UTC 
Works perfect in m121.
Pls. try a current build.
From the attached pspfontcache I can't see any problem. The lucida font package
seems to be installed with the jdk-1.4.2_05. The only things I can imagine:
1. the jdk was removed or for some other reason unavailable to OO.o (partition
not mounted). Unlikely, as Lucida was embedded/subsetted in the PDF.
2. A font family name mismatch with the installed "Lucida Sans Phonetic" which
additionally is avalable as TrueType and as PostScript Type1 font on your system.

Suggestion:
as root change into /usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_05/jre/lib/fonts directory and execute
"fc-cache ." (assuming you have font-config).
This should distribute the lucida font family via font-config. If present, you
should consider to remove an existing fonts.dir in that directoy to avoid
distributing these fonts also via plain X.
Comment 9 bulbul 2005-07-26 15:50:16 UTC 
Okay. The bug is gone in OOo 1.9.113. Thanks for the details. Closing.