Bug 164784 - DOCX: Form problems: Tick boxes get an umlaut instead of a tick
Summary: DOCX: Form problems: Tick boxes get an umlaut instead of a tick
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Blocks: DOCX-Content_Control
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Reported: 2025-01-21 13:17 UTC by Dave Gilbert
Modified: 2025-01-24 21:27 UTC (History)
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UK Ofcom form (3.02 MB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-01-21 13:17 UTC, Dave Gilbert
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Description Dave Gilbert 2025-01-21 13:17:03 UTC
Created attachment 198646 [details]
UK Ofcom form

In the attached UK gov form there are at least two problems:

a) Clicking on a tickbox option (e.g. the 'user profiles' box in question 3, gets a umlauted-U rather than a tick or whatever it's supposed to be.  I guess a font mapping problem? 

b) Any of the text entry boxes require right clicking and selecting 'edit' which then lets you edit everything; the drop down selections and tick-boxes don't need that so it's at least inconsistent, and hard for a normal user.

(Tested on both fedora 41's 24.8.4.2-2 build, and a head build from a few days ago)

The document was from: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/online-safety/documents/illegal-content-duties-record-keeping-template.docx?v=389586   and is attached.
Comment 1 Charles Williams 2025-01-21 14:05:36 UTC
Both issues described are present on macOS using

Version: 24.8.4.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 15.2; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 BogdanB 2025-01-21 14:49:13 UTC
Also in
Version: 25.2.0.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 62af784cc06624122f17ee71c7cf13d906cbaed0
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: ro-RO (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Julien Nabet 2025-01-22 11:28:22 UTC
On pc Debian x86-64 with master sources updated today, I could reproduce this.

Unzipping the docx file, I noticed this on word/document.xml (after some reformatting):
1290             <w14:checkedState w14:val="00FC" w14:font="Wingdings"/>
1291             <w14:uncheckedState w14:val="2610" w14:font="MS Gothic"/>


"00FC" is "ΓΌ" in UTF-8 or ISO8859-1 but here it's Wingdings so it may not follow standard Unicode mappings.