[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139107] Availability of non-printing Unicode special characters should not depend upon the font

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139107

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|Some hebrew fonts don't     |Availability of
                   |have the RLO symbol         |non-printing Unicode
                   |                            |special characters should
                   |                            |not depend upon the font

--- Comment #1 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
More generally, the issue is as follows:

The Insert Special Character dialog should allow the user to locate, select and
insert Unicode characters which are non-printing, regardless of which font
family is chosen in the dialog.

However - that is not the case. With some selected families - one cannot even
locate, let alone select and copy, some of these characters; while with other
families, more (or all) of them are available, e.g. 

Specifically, I tried this with the Right-Left Override character, and got

* Failure with: David CLM (bundled with LibreOffice), Nachlieli CLM, Linux
Libertine, Georgia
* Success with: Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif, Noto Sans

and I also tried this with Right-to-Left Mark, and got:

* Failure with: Linux Libertine, Georgia
* Success with: David CLM, Nachlieli CLM, Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif,
Noto Sans

(the choice of fonts is arbitrary, except that David CLM is LibreOffice'
default for Hebrew text)

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