Package: libreoffice-common
Version: 1:6.0.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Since version 6, all libreoffice programs crash immediately when trying
to enter characters using their unicode encoding with a Ctrl-U sequence.
I used this a lot for entering greek letters in scientific documents
(Ctrl-U 0 3 B 1 gives alpha: α for example) or for some typesettings
characters (Ctrl-U 2 0 2 6 gives the ellipsis …). The Ctrl-U encoding
still works on all applications, like terminal or event reportbug as
I just used it above), but now it crashes libreoffice immediately.
How to reproduce:
1) from the command line, run "libreoffice"
2) in the window, select "Create: writer document"
3) in the body of the empty "Untitled 1" document,
type Ctrl-U 6 1
4) libreoffice crashes and propose to attempt recovery
of the untitled document
5) after recovery, the document is still empty
The hexadecimal code given in the procedure above 0x61, represents
the ASCII character 'a', so it is not a problem of encoding or
fonts or anything like this.
The crash occurs for all characters I tried.
I tried to see if it was linked to the non-ASCII characters, but
this is not the case. If I type the codes above, even for greek
or typesettings characters in a terminal window and then copy-paste
the character in Libreoffice, the character is displayed correctly.
The crash seems related to the fact I enter them from keyboard
with the Ctrl-U prefix, which is pretty much standard nowadays
for other Debian applications.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libreoffice-common depends on:
ii libreoffice-style-tango 1:6.0.2-1
ii ure 6.0.2-1+b1
Versions of packages libreoffice-common recommends:
ii fonts-liberation2 2.00.1-5
ii libexttextcat-data 3.4.5-1
ii python3-uno 1:6.0.2-1+b1
ii xdg-utils 1.1.2-2
Versions of packages libreoffice-common suggests:
ii libreoffice-style-galaxy [libreoffice-style] 1:6.0.2-1
ii libreoffice-style-tango [libreoffice-style] 1:6.0.2-1
Versions of packages python3-uno depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-2
ii libgcc1 1:8-20180312-2
ii libpython3.6 3.6.5~rc1-1
ii libreoffice-core 1:6.0.2-1+b1
ii libstdc++6 8-20180312-2
ii python3 3.6.4-1
ii python3.6 3.6.5~rc1-1
ii uno-libs3 6.0.2-1+b1
ii ure 6.0.2-1+b1
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