https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56357

--- Comment #7 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> ---
While waiting for answers from the user, I like to note down 
some ideas about the “unknown character prefix and suffix”.

Both glyphs are somewhat difficult to recognize on the screenshot, but
according to their general shape I would guess that they come from the “Apple
Symbols” font (which is used as a general glyph supplement source by Mac OS X).
In this font, I find only two glyphs which are similar. Both don’t have a
Unicode value assigned to them, but are private glyphs which can be used to
display Unicode values which don’t have a visual representation themselves.

1) The first (opening one) reads “LRE” and is called “uni202A.ChartForm”
   in the font, i.e. it is a visual representation for U+202A,
   which is the “LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING” mark.
2) The second (closing one) reads “PDF” and is called “uni202C.ChartForm”
   in the font, i.e. it is a visual representation for U+202C,
   which is the “POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING” mark.

But this does not yet explain why these two glyphs do appear here; especially
given the fact that both glyphs don’t have an Unicode value on their own.
Ideas:

-- Does the popup text contain -- by some error -- U+202A and U+202C here, and
the System uses the two special visible glyphs to display these invisible
marks?

-- Or does LibreOffice use U+202A and U+202C intentionally here, and is the
problem only that on the specific machine these two marks do get displayed,
instead of being invisible marks just used for text rendering?

-- Or ...?

Of course, I hope some expert for the traditional Chinese UI translation, or
for the code used to display the east-Asian text in the LibreOffice UI could
help to find out what could be the reason for those glyphs to appear there ...

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