Bug 157954 - Symbols not displaying consistently
Summary: Symbols not displaying consistently
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.7.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2023-10-27 19:58 UTC by Peter Wilkins
Modified: 2024-05-27 03:14 UTC (History)
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Attachments
in process of compiling list of smoke & CO alarms (12.12 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2023-10-27 19:58 UTC, Peter Wilkins
Details
Writer document showing combination of power symbols (11.45 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-10-27 20:00 UTC, Peter Wilkins
Details

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Description Peter Wilkins 2023-10-27 19:58:54 UTC
Created attachment 190459 [details]
in process of compiling list of smoke & CO alarms

In creating a Calc spreadsheet to compile lists of smoke & CO alarms, I wanted to include a pull-down list in one column to indicate power source, per:
* 🔋 (battery only) U+1F50B
* ⏻+🔋 (mains power + battery back-up) (U+23FB & U+1F50B)
* ⏻ (mains power only) (U+23FB)
* 🔌 (plug-in) Electric Plug (U+1F50C)

However, I was unable to do this...  I was able to do all three symbols in a cell as in: 🔋⏻🔌 (not something that exists at Home Depot) but if I delete one of the symbols, another symbol also disapeard or changed to a different version of the symbol (colour to black and white) or else another symbol changed to a box (unknown character).

Undeterred, I decided to create the list in Writer - but this time I found similar, although slightly different problems.  For example, I could render the battery (green) and the power symbol on different lines, but if I put them on the same line, the battery symbol changed from green to black and white line version.  Also, if I copied the power symbol and battery to Calc, only the battery symbol displayed - it seems impossible to render the power symbol and the battery symbol in the same cell - as if the power symbol was silently deleted.

It was about this point that I realized that I should file a bug report.

See attached files (Calc & Writer) to see how far I got before abandoning this effort.
Comment 1 Peter Wilkins 2023-10-27 20:00:14 UTC
Created attachment 190460 [details]
Writer document showing combination of power symbols
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2023-10-28 00:47:19 UTC
Make a specific font assignment--the Arial font in use has no coverage of the Emoji Unicode glyphs, so system "fallback" is happening.

Perhaps 'Segoe UI Emoji' on your Windows build.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2024-04-26 03:18:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2024-05-27 03:14:42 UTC
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