Bug 112921 - Fancy quotation marks hide text and change font thereafter
Summary: Fancy quotation marks hide text and change font thereafter
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.1.6.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Font-Rendering
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Reported: 2017-10-06 01:14 UTC by Terrence Enger
Modified: 2025-10-04 03:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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a few lines including fancy quotation marks (194 bytes, text/plain)
2017-10-06 01:14 UTC, Terrence Enger
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Description Terrence Enger 2017-10-06 01:14:44 UTC
Created attachment 136794 [details]
a few lines including fancy quotation marks

STR
(1) download and open attached file "b"

    expected  : one typeface, with content ...

                 -  header comments range from “good enough to ask ic to
            review” down through “I am ashamed to show them” to
            “nonexistent”.  So ask ic for advice ...

    observed : the double quotes themselves and the text the contained
    are omitted, and everything retained after the first double quote
    is bold ...

                -  header comments range from down through to
           .  So ask ic for advice ...

The double quotes involved are: opening = hex e2 80 9c and closing =
hex e2 80 9d.  It was only when I started to prepare this report that
I realized that I had anything other that plain ASCII double quotes.

I see this in daily Linux dbgutil bibisect repository version
2107-10-05 and bibisect-41all version latest.  (bibisect-41all version
oldest does not run for me.)

I see this behaviour is several ways in LibreOffice:
(*) Open the file in Writer;
(*) Insert the file into a Writer document;
(*) Copy the contents of the file from a plain text editor (I use
    emacs) into a Writer document;
(*) Paste the contents of the file into a cell in a Calc worksheet.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2017-11-03 14:00:08 UTC
Repro.

In 3.3, it pops up a dialog which has UTF-8 pre-selected and thus works ok.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 64024d7c18bd114eb9958cf80eea9129e09923bd
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.13; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
Built on November 3rd 2017

Arch Linux 64-bit
LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-11-04 03:57:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Roman Kuznetsov 2018-11-04 13:15:43 UTC
still repro in 

Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 726c18db3215ec74135f51365322a6b531f328af
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-11-03_19:38:55
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU.UTF-8); Calc: threaded
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2019-11-05 03:29:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Terrence Enger 2019-11-05 19:30:15 UTC
I still see the bug in bibisect-linux-64-6.4 s-h c4d760b9 (2019-10-28)
running on debian-buster.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2021-11-05 04:25:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Terrence Enger 2021-11-11 21:00:47 UTC
I still see the bug in commit 631aa911 (2021-11-09), built and running
debian-buster.
Comment 8 BogdanB 2023-10-04 19:24:43 UTC
Also in
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 695390b08799af34b393c81c834d615bea330d89
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2025-10-04 03:12:21 UTC
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