As a workaround, try updating your copy of the Cantarell font. From what
I can tell by seeing your 14.04 screenshot, you have an old version
installed, with no Cyrillic characters. In 12.04 it works because you
have Calibri set as your UI font there, and Calibri does support
Cyrillic.
** Summary changed:
- Cyrillic entries render like squares in some LO widgets when libreoffice-gtk
installed
+ LibreOffice shows squares when the UI font does not support certain
characters. It does not fallback to other fonts like the rest of apps.
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Title:
LibreOffice shows squares when the UI font does not support certain
characters. It does not fallback to other fonts like the rest of apps.
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
1. Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
2. libreoffice-gtk:
Installed: 1:4.2.4-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:4.2.4-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1:4.2.4-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
3. I'v been hit with the strange bug for some time in LibreOffice under
Ubuntu 14.04
Namely whenever I try to enter some string in LibreOffice Calc using
non-latin characters, cyrillic in my case, the entry renders just fine in the
cell, but it renders with a series of squares at the formula entry widget. The
same happens with the search entry widget (ctrl+f).
I'm hit by this bug when using both the default packages from the
official Ubuntu repository, the packages from the LibreOffice PPAs but
also packages that I've downloaded from the Libreoffice website.
The first strange thing I've notied is that those same deb packages
downloaded from the LibreOffice website work just fine under Ubuntu
12.04.
Today I've done some testing (after removing the PPA packages so that
ubuntu-bug would allow me to report this bug), and noticed that if I
remove the libreoffice-gtk package, then I don't have this problem any
more, except for the non exsistent theming and really ugly looking of
LO.
I conclude that the problem is not in the LibreoOffice itself but in
some gtk library.
I'm sending screenshots of the bug. One is taken under Ubuntu 12.04
where everything works fine, the other under Ubuntu 14.04 where this
bug appears.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libreoffice-gtk 1:4.2.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Jul 19 18:51:50 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-19 (91 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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