Comment 9 for bug 14709

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:07:37 +0300 (EEST)
From: Harri Kiiskinen <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Reason for crash solved

Hello,

I finally found the reason for the mysterious crash: it resulted from a
corrupted afm-file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/. So the bug
actually should read something like:

"OpenOffice.Org crashes when it tries to read a non-ascii character in
an afm file." Of course, there shouldn't ever be any non-ascii
characters in afm files, but other programs may have bugs in them,
too...

A suggested solution: instead of crashing, ignore the font, perhaps with
a notice, that the font OpenOffice.org was trying to read is corrupted.

--
Harri Kiiskinen