[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 #6 from Richard Parkins <aleph0hpela-bugz at yahoo.co.uk> ---
OK, I now have a better idea of what is happening here. I looked at Noto Serif
Hebrew with a font viewer and it only has glyphs defined for Hebrew characters.
Presumably when a non-Hebrew character is to be rendered, somewhere between the
text to be shown by the application and the pixels on the screen something
chooses another font which has a glyph for that character in order to render
it.

Most applications get that right. The LibreOffice version that came with
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 gets it right. The LibreOffice version that comes with
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 doesn't get it right.

An acceptable workaround for me would be to construct a font which has the
glyphs for Hebrew characters from Noto Serif Hebrew, and the remaining glyphs
from some sans-serif font that I'm happy with. The last time I (wrote and) used
a font editor (for a laser printer) was about 35 years ago. Font formats have
changed a lot since then. Any help in doing this (what tool to use, how to
drive it) would be welcome. I can eventually work it out for myself, but why
reinvent the wheel?

Of course it would be better if LibreOffice gets fixed to do it right again.

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