Bug 114036 - VIEWING : Symbol and Opensymbol fonts shows rectangles instead of greek characters in libreoffice writer 5.3
Summary: VIEWING : Symbol and Opensymbol fonts shows rectangles instead of greek chara...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.3.6.1 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2017-11-24 20:03 UTC by Bernard Gisin
Modified: 2018-07-03 14:19 UTC (History)
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Description Bernard Gisin 2017-11-24 20:03:48 UTC
Description:
I work under linux KUbuntu 16.04 64 bits, with KDE.
I have many .odt files with greek characters coming from the "symbol.ttf" font.
It works very well under libreoffice 5.1.
I updated to libreoffice 5.3, there the greek characters disappeared.
They were all replaced by white rectangles.
I removed libreoffice 5.3 to come back to libreoffice 5.1 and characters are back.
I tried on another computer also on linux KUbuntu 16.04 64 bits + KDE, with version 5.4 of libreoffice, there the characters worked well.
So I hope this is just a temporary regression in 5.3, with is resolved in 5.4.

Thank you for your development, Bernard Gisin.




Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert a symbol from the font  "symbol"  or  "opensymbol"
2.type a character just after your symbol, a rectangle appear.
3.OR
4.Type letters, select them then change the font to symbol, the greek letters appear as rectangles.

Actual Results:  
white rectangles appear.

Expected Results:
greek characters should appear.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
From on test, as I already wrote, the problem doesn't appear under version 5.4



User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Comment 1 Dieter 2017-11-25 08:10:16 UTC
Dear reporter,
could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ? One solution could also be to disable OpenGL (Tools => Options => LibreOffice => View).
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-05-30 16:39:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-07-03 14:19:23 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
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reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
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