Description: I have a document with (what I think is) unicode U+10FC00 characters in it. (A quick search on the web tells me that this is an invalid character) The document repeatedly hangs as I navigate past the U+10FC00 characters - on a Mac, I get the spinning beachball for a minute or so each time I try to move around, effectively rendering the document unusable. Explainer for why I have U+10FC00 character in the document in the first place: The document has text copy pasted from a PDF https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/consultation-paper/2016/11/wild-seaweed-harvesting-strategic-environmental-assessment-environmental-report/documents/00510620-pdf/00510620-pdf/govscot%3Adocument?forceDownload=true The pasted text is the whole of section 6.1.3, which is a set of 6 or so bullet points. The U+10FC00 characters are the bullets themselves. The text was pasted into the LibreOffice document using shift-cmd-v and selecting Unformatted Text. Explainer for how I identified the character as U+10FC00: I've identified the characters as U+10FC00 by pasting the same text into a wikipedia edit window ... it shows them as 10FC00. (I grant I could be misleading myself and you if the edit window is really trying to say "you gave my some junk characters, and I'm giving you a junk character indicator in return.) BDD As a LibreOffice Write user, I wish to be able to - Paste section 6.1.3 of the above PDF into a write document using shirt-cmd-v & selecting the unformatted text option - Use the write document without having to wait for ~1 minute each time I navigate past the pasted section. Steps to Reproduce: 1. download https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/consultation-paper/2016/11/wild-seaweed-harvesting-strategic-environmental-assessment-environmental-report/documents/00510620-pdf/00510620-pdf/govscot%3Adocument?forceDownload=true 2. navigate to section 6.1.3 3. select and copy to clipboard all of 6.1.3 4. open Write document 5. paste-special using cmd-shift-v and selecting unformatted text Actual Results: the text copies, but the document hangs when navigating past the text Expected Results: the text copies, but the document DOES NOT hang when navigating past the text Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info:
I should note this is not an issue particularly connected with the new release; it was happening on a machine with an earlier LibreOffice version & continued to happen after I upgraded to the current 6.2.0.3 version.
FWIW, U+10FC00 is not an invalid character; that code point belongs to the Supplementary Private Use Area-B (plane SPUA-B) in the range U+100000..U+10FFFF My wild guess is that either the UTF-16 encoding of High Private Use Surrogates (U+DB80..U+DBFF) might come cross there, or trying to find a font that contains a glyph for the private use code point is, surprise surprise, unsuccessful.
Yup, the idea that Write was searching for a way of rendering whatever junk it had been given crossed my mind. But the issue remains: users will paste stuff like this into their documents, and right now doing so a) seems to be a poison-pill with no antidote and b) LibroOffice gives no clue whatsoever about what's going on / going wrong.
No repro for me with : Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: e9db8eceff48290be72591f7422b4fc45e5752fc CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.2; UI render: default; VCL: osx; Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded Mac mini (fin 2014) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 8Gb 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris 1536 Mb 1920 x 1080 resolution screen
Hello, LibreOffice 6.2.2.2 is going to be released today, could you please try again with this version to see if the problem has been resolved meanwhile? Thanks in advance
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