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[Upstream] [hardy] É in arial bold is translated to ... in OpenOffice.org

Bug #148991 reported by Jonathan Ernst
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Bug Description

Might be related to Bug #148162 but not sure :

I'm using gutsy updated and could reproduce the bug on three different computers :

1) install msttcorefonts
2) open a new OpenOffice document
3) write É
4) set this letter to be Arial : it works
5) set the letter to bold (Arial bold) it is displayed as "..." !!!

É exists in this font in bold (you can see it in gucharmap)

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :
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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :
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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :

If you remove msttcorefonts it works (but then I guess Arial is replaced with another font).

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :

ç is translated in À in Arial bold...

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :

To fix this issue I did :

rm -rf ~/.fontconfig/;sudo fc-cache -r -v

I don't know which one of these command fixed the issue, but I guess it's the first one (as now I'm not able to reproduce the problem even after removing msttcorefonts, recreating the cache, installing msttcorefonts).

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :

Sorry this doesn't fix it... It's really strange :

If you open sample1 (which triggers the issue) then (while it's open) you open a new document type an É bold arial, it will show the bug

Then if you close both documents and just open a new document and type an É bold arial it won't show the bug !

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :

"sample1" refers to my attachment named "document that triggers this bug"

I can reconfirm that removing msttcorefonts solve this issue too.

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Confirmed on upstream's openoffice.org 2.4.0~rc2.

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in openoffice:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Oh, dear. Confirmed, confirmed. Ran into this as well using 8.01 Hardy with all the latest updates. Trying to move to Linux here at school and this probably won´t impress anyone :-(

Opening the attached document produces a lot of "^":s instead of "ö":s - but if I FIRST start with a new document and from there open the attatched one everything looks normal!!

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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Removed mstcorefonts and things seem to work now..

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

This appears to be fixed in OOo 3.0.0

Changed in openoffice:
status: In Progress → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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