https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161465

John Baab <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from John Baab <[email protected]> ---
Thank you for checking.

You are correct, it is "Greek Polytonic" (not polyphonic, my error).

With Greek fonts (and some other languages) the keyboard has a special set up
so that if you press the key for an accent or other diacritic marking, and then
press the key for the correct letter. The letter then appears with the accent
over it. (I have no idea if it includes a backspace or something else.) This
works fine for me. However, when I have two diacritics, like the circumflex
accent which is the '[' key, and also the little iota which is the '{' key, the
machine stops and must be recovered.

Your point about using another font was a good one.

I opened a page, set the keyboard to Greek Polytonic, and, on a new line, set
the font to Liberation Sans. I typed in several accent combinations and nothing
happened.

So, I went to another line below, set the font to Times New Roman, size 16,
which is what I was using before, and it seemed to be fine. for a minute. 

I highlighted the two lines to erase them, and LibreOffice quit. For a moment,
it just froze, and then as I was checking to see if I could save the file, it
went into a recovery mode. 

So that seems a step forward, if the problem might be a font.


I should note that with these languages, usually the keyboard is set up so that
you type normally, and just press the key for the accent(s) before the
character and it all appears correctly. I don't know how to combine letters
with the unicode tool as you can with Ubuntu, but it seems like the problem may
be in the combination with the keyboard used with a language and certain fonts.
(And maybe the Mac operating system, who knows?)

If you want, I can try other fonts, but that will take a while as I have to
recover in those cases that have a freeze.

I just checked, and had to use 'Force Quit' to stop LibreOffice from just
sitting there making the rainbow cursor spin. The report to send to Apple was
offered, but it is pages and pages long, and didn't seem appropriate to append
here. I can do it if necessary.  

Here are the last lines of the Apple Report

Model: Macmini9,1, BootROM 8419.60.44, proc 8:4:4 processors, 8 GB, SMC 
Graphics: Apple M1, Apple M1, Built-In
Display: KA242Y A, 1680 x 1050 (Widescreen Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus),
Main, MirrorOff, Online
Memory Module: LPDDR4, Micron
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_wifi (0x14E4, 0x4378), wl0: Sep  3 2022
03:37:22 version 18.20.379.4.7.8.143 FWID 01-e3c71b50
Bluetooth: Version (null), 0 services, 0 devices, 0 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
USB Device: USB30Bus
USB Device: USB Receiver
USB Device: USB 2.0 Hub
USB Device: Macally USB Keyboard
USB Device: Blue Snowball
USB Device: 2.4G Wireless Mouse
USB Device: USB31Bus
USB Device: USB31Bus
Thunderbolt Bus: Mac mini, Apple Inc.



Here are some lines that are repeated often, perhaps referring to a wait status
or something.

Process:          seld [704]
UUID:             7187596E-5810-3998-83CC-CBDA6634D527
Path:             /usr/libexec/seld
Codesigning ID:   com.apple.seld
Shared Cache:     00A1FBB6-43E1-3C11-8483-FAF0DB659249 slid base address
0x1a3164000, slide 0x23164000 (System Primary)
Architecture:     arm64e
Parent:           launchd [1]
UID:              260
Sudden Term:      Tracked (allows idle exit)
Footprint:        3072 KB
Time Since Fork:  2466s
Num samples:      54 (1-54)
Note:             1 idle work queue thread omitted

Thunderbolt Bus: Mac mini, Apple Inc.

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