[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113134] New: Hebrew Dagesh/ Mapiq character not visible in special char dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113134

            Bug ID: 113134
           Summary: Hebrew Dagesh/Mapiq character not visible in special
                    char dialog
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.2.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz at technion.ac.il

The Hebrew language employs punctuations - points and lines added over, under
or within a letter to indicate aspects of its pronunciation. One of the
punctuation symbols is the Dagesh - it converts a V into B, F into P and
otherwise places an emphasis on a consonant.

Now, punctuation symbols, including the Dagesh, have Unicode character codes
(and are considered "modifier" characters if I'm not mistaken). Dagesh is at
U+0x5BC (which is the same character for Mapiq, which is about the same thing
as a Dagesh).

Now, if I choose to insert a special character in LibreOffice Writer, and
choose the Hebrew font I'm using for my text (say, David CLM from the culmus
project), I see what is supposedly the entire set of Hebrew characters provided
by this font. Yet, while some punctuation symbols can be chosen - such as
Patah, Qamats and others - I don't see the Dagesh character. David CLM _does_
have a Dagesh, as I observe using an external character map utility.

It seems like the Special Character dialog is somehow filtering more of the
Hebrew fonts than it should be.

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