[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112020] New: Insert Special Character arbitrarily restricts which characters in font can be inserted

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112020

            Bug ID: 112020
           Summary: Insert Special Character arbitrarily restricts which
                    characters in font can be inserted
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: UI
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: khanson679 at gmail.com

Description:
There is no apparent logic to which characters appear. For example, choose
Liberation Serif or OpenSymbol and navigate to General Punctuation. U+2022
BULLET is available, but the very next character, U+2023 TRIANGULAR BULLET, is
not.

Which characters appear also seems to depend on the font selected. For example,
U+25B3 WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE appears for OpenSymbol but not for Liberation
Serif.

I confirmed that the above mentioned characters exist in both fonts using a
separate program, KCharSelect.

I believe there are some other aspects of the Special Character dialog under
discussion at the time of writing. Now would be a good time to fix this as
well, since it seriously cripples the usefulness of the dialog.

Steps to Reproduce:
Search for an arbitrary character in an arbitrary font.

Actual Results:  
All characters that exist in the font should be available.

Expected Results:
Some characters are missing, with no placeholder in the interface.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/55.0

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