Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 1203
Garbage display when inserting a special character before a normal word
Last modified: 2003-12-06 14:52:34 UTC
To simulate: 1. Run 627 in a CJK Windows. I use Chinese Windows Me. 2. Open Writer. Default font is set to "Times Roman New". Type in "Testing" 3. Position the cursor at the front of the word "Testing" 4. Insert symbol "beta", unicode code 0x00DF by select "Insert > Special Characters ..." 5. The beta symbol and letter "T" was intepreted as one CJK char and looks like garbage. Winddows NT does not have this problem. If you select the second character, "T" which is half char size of the garbage CJK character and change font to "Times New Roman" (actually it is already in Times New Roman and this action is somehow redundant), everything returns to normal.
Reassigned to Ulf.
Please verify again in 638 and comment. Thank you.
Verified. The problem is still in 638.
changing QA contact from bugs@ to issues@
I guess that this is a problem with weak characters. Weak characters are those characters, which can not determined as CJK or western characters (mostly symbols). To make a guess, which font has to be used (CJK or a western one) OO examines the character before the weak character (none in your case)and the installed Office language. In the past we took also the character behind the weak character into account. Please verify again in a forthcomming OO641 and comment, as we changed a lot in this area. Thank you.
We reworked the concept for 'Weaks' completely. Please verify this issue again (638 is somewhat outdated). Works for me.
Problem still exists in 641c
Reassign issue to owner of selected subcomponent
Ulf: I guess you should sort out what "L10N" and "I18N" data is involved. I guess that maybe the special treatment of certain characters is subject to this data. And as far as I know, these files have "dummy" contents in OpenOffice (until someone decides to fill it), therefore the behavior may differ from the current StarOffice. I may be on the wrong track, though... Reassigned.
WaiTing, thanks for posting this issue. Does this problem still exist in OOo 1.0.1? Thank you for using and supporting OOo.
Repeat steps 1 to 5 as described in initial problem report. The characters "beta" and "Testing" are shown properly. However, if we hightlight all characters and change the font to Arial, the first 2 chars will be misintepreted as a single Chinese. This problem remains even after we change the font back to Times Roman.
Pls. verify in OOo643. All prior versions lack a real l10n framework.
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OO643C on Me is not stable. It crashed when I tried to repeat the test.
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