Description: Some font characters (maybe missing symbols?) are displayed differently in Writer vs Word. This specific character in the example below is used in a lot of Romanian legal documents as a placeholder box for writing numbers on printed pages. The character displayed in Writer does not have the same outline so, when printed does not allow filling by pen. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open attached document 2. Notice that there are multiple fridge-like symbols. Actual Results: The symbols used are displayed as fridge-like figures. Expected Results: The symbols should be displayed as empty vertical rectangles. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: The font used is Symbol (see font screenshot). The symbols should be displayed as in the picture with the font sample, but instead it is displayed with an unknown symbol. Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 33e196637044ead23f5c3226cde09b47731f7e27 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO); UI: ro-RO Calc: CL threaded
Created attachment 201467 [details] Font as displayed in Windows Settings
Created attachment 201468 [details] Document with wrong symbols
The same issue happens in Version: 7.6.7.2 (x86) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: dd47e4b30cb7dab30588d6c79c651f218165e3c5 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 26100; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (ro_RO); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded but the same symbols are displayed as christian crosses in LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Created attachment 201470 [details] Displayed fine on Linux
On Linux, the same identical font is displayed as expected, seems that it affects only Windows versions of LibreOffice. Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:3) CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+xcb) Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US 25.2.4-2 Calc: threaded
Just to clarify — were Microsoft Word and LibreOffice used to open the document on the same PC and environment, or on different systems? If they were opened on different environments, the difference may come from font fallback behavior or system font availability rather than LibreOffice itself.
(In reply to Takenori Yasuda from comment #6) > Just to clarify — were Microsoft Word and LibreOffice used to open the > document on the same PC and environment, or on different systems? > Must be related somehow with the fallback font used by LibreOffice on Windows. On Linux (with the same SYMBOL.TTF font copied and installed from Windows), the characters are displayed correctly. On Windows, with the Font manager from Windows Settings (See screenshot), the font is displayed the same as in Linux (correctly, with rectangle symbols). On the same Windows PC, LO 3.3 displays the characters as crosses, LO 7.6 - LO 25 displayes as refrigerators. So it is somehow related to what LO uses to display these characters on Windows. Attached another screenshot from Windows XP with the original document, LO 5.4 displays as black hackers, MS Office as rectangles.
Created attachment 201472 [details] Office 2003 vs LO 5.4
Created attachment 201473 [details] Original Office 2003 file
The charter in question is U+F0A0 which is a Private Use Area (PUA) character, so closing this as duplicate of bug 126111, since the root issue here is that we apply font fallback to PUA characters but we probably shouldn’t. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 126111 ***