Description: When using DM Sans (a google ttf font) it has some special characters at 65527 U + 0061 and 65553 U + 0033 (as reported with fontforge). It is not possible to insert them as special characters, because the zeros in 0061 are deleted. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install DM Sans 2.Open LO and Writer 3.Insert special character U + 0061 Actual Results: character 61 Expected Results: character 0061 Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: See attachment that shows characters exist in fontforge.
Created attachment 166900 [details] Screenshots of fontforge showing missing glyphs DM Sans glyphs that LO cannot find
SO have you tried entering PUA style using U+FFF7 or U+FFFD respectively? And rather than the Special Character dialog picker, can also do an Alt+X conversion directly after typing the Unicode. E.g. "U+FFF7<Alt>X"
OK, so looking at DM Sans [1], the glyps you want to use are part of its "Stylistic Alternates", the 'a' is in "Stylistic Set 2" (a.ss02) and the '3' is in "Stylistic Set 4" (3.ss04). We don't expose the alternates in the Special Character dialog, but that might be a useful enhancement. Rather the alternates are selected from the 'Character...' dialog which will display a preview of the glyph(s) to be rendered, including alternates exposed with the 'Features...' button that opens and exposes the 'Font Features' dialog. Applicable to both Graphite and OpenType fonts, the dialog provides checkbox toggles for all features of the font. And when applied, the Font name field will be appended with the stylistic set. Because the glyph you want come from two different 'Stylistic Sets' they have to be individually selected and have feature applied. The access all will mix the result. =-refs-=
Created attachment 166905 [details] Character dialog Font Features for applying Stylistic Set alternate glyphs clip showing the sample document with the alternate glyphs rendered using the Font Features dialog.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3) > > =-refs-= [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/DM+Sans
Thanks for putting me right. I can reproduce everything as you say under Format | Character| Features. It is not a bug. However, I could not make the suggestions about entering PUA style using U+FFF7 or U+FFFD respectively and using alt-x work. Previously I have always found what I needed under Insert | Special Character, and I was unaware that such characters could be found like this. If there were a way of enhancing Insert | Special Character it would be great, because I suspect many users have not yet found Format | Character| Features. Also a single place to go to might be a usability improvement.