[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107546] Font problem with ASCII 32 (space key)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107546

--- Comment #3 from Ekkehard May <info at chessdiagrammer.com> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #2)
> The font is really broken. It provides a symbol “cmap” subtable that does
> not have a mapping for space character. Since the font does not support the
> space character as far as we are concerned we use a fallback font for it,
> and it will most likely have a different width.
> 
> I don’t know how other office applications are handling this, one possible
> explanation is that they are not doing any font fallback for fonts with
> symbol “cmap” subtable, which in turn will cause them to use the glyph for
> unsupported characters (glyph 0) which happens to be a white (empty) square
> in this font. This also why this font works in Scribus since it does not do
> any fallback for missing characters. I tried AbiWord but it gave me similar
> rendering as LibreOffice.

I tested the font "Chess Alpha" with the Software AbiWord 2.9.4, no problems
there.

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