[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142236] LibreOffice Writer UI seems to have trouble displaying numbers

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142236

--- Comment #5 from Richard Parkins <aleph0hpela-bugz at yahoo.co.uk> ---
This problem appeared when I upgraded from OpenSUSE LEAP 15.1 to OpenSUSE Leap
15.2: this presumably involved a version upgrade of LibreOffice as well,
although I can't confirm that for certain.

The problem occurs only for certain choices of system font: I have found it
with these

Droid Arabic Kufi
Droid Arabic Naskh
Droid Sans Armenian
Droid Sans Ethiopic
Droid Sans Hebrew
Droid Sans Japanese
Doid Sans Thai
Goha-Tibeb Zemen
Guseul
Noto Serif Hebrew

but there may be others. Note that all these fonts are optimised for non-Latin
scripts, although of course they all have a full set of basic glyphs.

I have not found any other applications which use the system font to be
affected.

LibreOffice Calc also shows the problem: with any of these fonts as the system
font there are no row numbers (you need to restart to show this) and the
numbers in the point size list are missing. If I set the font for a cell to one
of these fonts, all the digits in the cell are replaced by wide spaces, but the
digits are still correctly displayed in the input line box in the toolbar (!)

LibreOffice Writer also loses digits in text if I set the text's font to be one
of those above.

I could of course use a system font which doesn't show this problem with
LibreOffice, but it is definitely a problem with LibreOffice since it only
showed up when I upgraded.

I do a lot of work with Biblical Hebrew text, and I want things like file names
in Hebrew to show up in the traditional font, not a modern one. However most
traditional Hebrew fonts use serif glyphs for Latin characters, and I prefer a
sans-serif font for general User Interface elements. Noto Serif Hebrew is the
only font that I have been able to find that combines sans-serif glyphs for
Latin text with traditional glyphs for Hebrew text, so it is a real
inconvenience if I can't use it. I was using it before my operating system
upgrade without problems.

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