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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006740 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2008-02-05 14:46 | 2011-01-02 22:22 |
| Reporter | JLuc | Assigned To | avox | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | PC | OS | Vista | OS Version | 1.3.3.10svn22/08 |
| Product Version | 1.3.3.10 | ||||
| Summary | 0006740: black hole behaviour with missing unicode font character | ||||
| Description | Type '4' change font to "webdings" and instead of a black triangle looking character appears a thick square. Anything typed close to that square disappears as swallowed by it. It would greatly help if Scribus was aware of that loss, and would detect and stop the user attempt to do a mistake. Even better : scribus could correctly understand the desired character and behave so as to please the user. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Type '4' change font to "webdings" see what happen if you type close to the square | ||||
| Additional Information | > Most fonts support more than one encoding. Unicode has the advantage that > *all* known encodings can be mapped to Unicode. If there are non-standard > glyphs in a font, they can still be mapped to the Private Use Area in > Unicode. > Internally Scribus stores Unicode only. So if a font fails to provide a > Unicode > mapping for its glyphs, it's lost to Scribus... and Scribus is lost ! | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Actually it's not possible to type anything to the left of the square. It works on the right, though. |
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If the current font is Webdings, you can only type characters which are available in this fonts, that's by design. I read again the bug description and realized it's not a bug at all. You typed a '4', so why do you expect that should be displayed as something else in any font? A 4 is not a black triangle. If you change the font to Webdings, Scribus will show the missing glyph sysmbol, and if you enter the black triangle and switch to some other font, Scribus will show the missing glyph symbol instead of a triangle. That's the correct behaviour. If you want to input special chars, use the menu item Insert->Glyphs or the Unicode code input method. |
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avox: This doesn't take away the fact that it's not possible to type anything close to the missing glyph. This shouldn't happen. |
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Works perfectly here after having set a font which support typed characters |
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jghali : if the user makes a mistake, scribus bugs. Scribus should prevent the user from making a mistake. |
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That's precisely what it is doing there, it prevents you from typing unsupported characters |
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avox : I dont undestand avox "explanation" and i am sure very few people would. jghali : Do you mean you think it is the correct behaviour ? I dunnot agree. Scribus doesnt prevent from typing unsupported character : if i type a socalled bad character, scribus doesnt prevent it, but records it even doesnt display nothing. It obviously records it since the local style is changed. And it doesnt know how to support that recorded unsupported character. Beside, is there a way to recognise through Scribus a "font which support typed character" ? I have not seen so. |
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>jghali : it prevents you from typing unsupported characters No, this is 100% false. Why do you write this ? |
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The missing glyphs is by design and webdings is a particularly odd font internally. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2008-02-05 14:46 | JLuc | New Issue | |
| 2008-02-05 17:23 | christoph_s | Note Added: 0018809 | |
| 2008-02-05 17:23 | christoph_s | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2008-02-24 12:58 | avox | Note Added: 0019060 | |
| 2008-02-24 12:59 | avox | Status | confirmed => resolved |
| 2008-02-24 12:59 | avox | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2008-02-24 12:59 | avox | Assigned To | => avox |
| 2008-02-24 16:05 | christoph_s | Status | resolved => feedback |
| 2008-02-24 16:05 | christoph_s | Resolution | no change required => reopened |
| 2008-02-24 16:05 | christoph_s | Note Added: 0019061 | |
| 2008-02-25 16:18 | jghali | Note Added: 0019083 | |
| 2008-02-25 17:19 | JLuc | Note Added: 0019084 | |
| 2008-02-25 17:41 | jghali | Note Added: 0019085 | |
| 2008-02-25 17:43 | jghali | Note Edited: 0019085 | |
| 2008-03-17 22:23 | JLuc | Note Added: 0019215 | |
| 2008-03-30 09:07 | JLuc | Note Added: 0019325 | |
| 2011-01-02 22:22 |
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Note Added: 0025249 | |
| 2011-01-02 22:22 |
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Status | feedback => closed |
| 2011-01-02 22:22 |
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Resolution | reopened => fixed |
| 2015-09-17 20:08 | Kunda | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Story Ed/Txt Frames |
| 2015-09-17 20:12 | Kunda | Category | Story Ed/Txt Frames => Story Editor / Text Frames |
