[Debian-in-workers] Lohit Malayalam font & minus sign (Libre Office) List

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I Ran into this strange problem with Lohit Malayalam font on Libre
> Office - all latest versions, on a box running experimental / unstable.
>
> I tried inputting the minux (-) sign from the numeric keypad within
> Libre Office with Lohit Malayalam font.
>
> For example, I want to indicate a range of numbers, like "5-8" abd
> input the minux sign. Since the cursor is not moving, I keep the key
> depressed for a while. The cursor does not move. I try quite a few
> things, and the cursor refuses to budge only while inputtign the - sign.
>
> Finally, I select the text, change the font to something else, and
> find two lines of "-".
> --cut--
>
> The behavior with Lohit Telugu is that '-' becomes  a blank. Thought of
sharing for whatever it is worth. A bug filing for this is due for some time
in Telugu.

Cheers
Arjun
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