[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 31055] incorrect font replacement for list bullets

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31055

--- Comment #3 from Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> 2010-10-27 03:40:45 PDT ---
Sorry, no idea, but I googled. This document
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings-2.html seems to indicate that for most
Wingdings 2 character there is no Unicode substitute. (That might have changed
in the latest Unicode version, though, it now includes a lot more dingbat and
logo type characters. But those new characters are hardly covered by many of
the Free fonts out there anyway.) I found no Free equivalent fonts.

(For what it's worth, in a build of Novell OOo 3.2.1 I have on Windows, the
bullets look the same in Impress as in Excel 2007. But that is on a machine
that also has MS Office 2007, so it presumably then actually uses the Wingdings
2 font. In a machine with LibreOffice 3.3 and no MS Office, just a  rectangle
is shown (presumably meaning "glyph missing".)

Probably the sanest thing to do in LibreOffice would be to just show some
generic bullet if the specific one the document asks for isn't available. I
don't know why it chooses a CJK character for you, that surely is pointless and
a bug, yes.

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