Issue 103962 - fonts with names containing commas or semicolons are ignored
Summary: fonts with names containing commas or semicolons are ignored
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: gsl
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO310m11
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 3.x
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2009-08-02 21:28 UTC by ivymasters
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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ms works sample of the font as it is supoose to look (794 bytes, text/plain)
2009-08-02 21:31 UTC, ivymasters 		no flags Details
the font as it looks in open office (7.72 KB, text/plain)
2009-08-02 21:32 UTC, ivymasters 		no flags Details
the font in question (54.58 KB, text/plain)
2009-08-02 21:34 UTC, ivymasters 		no flags Details
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Description ivymasters 2009-08-02 21:28:22 UTC 
I just installed a new font. It shows correctly in MS works, but in openoffice
writer it shows as a plain simple font. The font is truetype. I have exammples
to show but there isn't an attach file button on this page.
Comment 1 ivymasters 2009-08-02 21:31:30 UTC 
Created attachment 63925 [details]
ms works sample of the font as it is supoose to look
Comment 2 ivymasters 2009-08-02 21:32:38 UTC 
Created attachment 63926 [details]
the font as it looks in open office
Comment 3 ivymasters 2009-08-02 21:34:23 UTC 
Created attachment 63927 [details]
the font in question
Comment 4 Regina Henschel 2009-08-02 22:19:12 UTC 
I can confirm the bug with OOo3.1.0 and DEV300m53 on WinXP. The font is
correctly installed. It shows correctly in Word, MS WordPad, MS FontViewer and
the old charmap.exe. But OOo does not show it nor does it use in pdf export.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2009-08-03 08:40:11 UTC 
@HDU: Please have a look. Confirmed on Vista too.
Comment 6 hdu@apache.org 2009-08-03 11:50:59 UTC 
Font lists in OOo use commas or semicolons as separator between different font names of descending. 
This concept is similiar to one described in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-
family

The special meaning of these separator chars causes trouble when one of the font names contains them 
(e.g. "Action Is, Shaded JL"). Since neither "Action Is" nor "Shaded JL" fonts are known a substitution font 
gets used.

There are different approaches to solve this issue:
- edit the font by renaming to something without special chars 
- don't treat a comma as separator char (this will probably cause problems for some imports for e.g. 
HTML)
- a font name matching up to the separator char is sufficient
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:33:09 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".