Created attachment 109858 [details] ODT file showing 1) & character method and 2) Unicode PUA method Upgrading from LO 4.0 to 4.3 breaks symbols using the Wingdings font on Mac OS X 10.6. For example, the character & in the Wingdings font used to render as a book, and today it is just a &. One can still insert a book in the Wingdings by using the "Insert special character" dialog (which apparently use Unicode Private Use Areas instead of characters in the ASCII range), but all existing documents need fixing manually. Also, opening documents created under Microsoft Word exhibit the same issue; though in the other direction Microsoft products are able to read both LO 4.0 and 4.3 documents including Wingdings symbols. This appears to be related to the move to new Core Text APIs under Mac OS X. I have found similar reports and technical documentation from NeoOffice, which has done the move earlier: http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8464 http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Problems_with_the_Symbol_font,_Greek_text,_or_bullets_in_Word_documents#Can.27t_I_just_type_using_the_Symbol_font.3F I understand moving to new APIs is unavoidable, but wouldn't there be a way to still support opening correctly old documents? E.g. automatically converting Wingdings characters in the ASCII range to Unicode PUA when opening the document. Interoperability with MS Word is a big deal, and with this change LO is losing some of the gains of the work that has been put into fixing small issues when opening .doc and .docx files.
Reducing priority since the issue is not in our code and is limited to OS X.
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #1) > Reducing priority since the issue is not in our code and is limited to OS X. I'm not sure the piece of code where the issue is matters a lot. :-) The questions is: are LO users affected or not. But I agree this is relatively minor (though it is a clear regression).
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (notBibisectable)
This works for me, test file shows a book in both cases and I can insert new book by typing & Version: 5.2.3.3 Build ID: d54a8868f08a7b39642414cf2c8ef2f228f780cf CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en_NO.UTF-8); Calc: group