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Displays german ä as one-tenth of a percent sign (‰) when using Times New Roman

Bug #249062 reported by Gregor Müllegger on 2008-07-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #173090: [upstream] [hardy] Special characters are not displayed correctly, fonts dissappear from the menu. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org2

There is a display failure when trying to type (or paste) the german ä sign. It is displayed as ‰. If I select the wrong displayed sign and change the font, everything is fine (though there is really the ä char stored).

I have attached a screenshot for an example.

The failure also exists when exporting as PDF but not when i use the ä in a HTML document with the Times New Roman font (tried in Firefox using Firebug to change an existing document on the fly).

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Gregor Müllegger (gregor-muellegger) wrote on 2008-07-16:

OpenOffice wrong letter.png Edit (69.6 KiB, image/png)

Gregor Müllegger (gregor-muellegger) on 2008-07-16

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Jan Kronborg (magic75) wrote on 2008-07-19:

I have a very similar problem with the swedish version. (Swedish also has the ä sign). ä is desiplayed as ‰. However I can also see this issue in the menus of Openoffice.

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Jan Kronborg (magic75) wrote on 2008-07-19:

Hmm, it seems when I start openoffice from the menu, characters are shown correctly. But when I start by launching (double-click in Nautilus, desktop or whatever) a calc-file the problem is there.

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Nicolas Quenouille (nicoz) wrote on 2008-07-19:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #173090, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.