Torsdag 22. august 2002 10:09 skreiv Matthias Schmitz: > Hi *, > > i was wondering why some fonts (f.e. Times) show question marks instead of > the wanted double quotes. I found (after hours of speculation ;> ) a > solution: deactivate under Tools -> AutoCorrect/AutoFormat -> Custom Quotes > the checkbox 'Double quotes Replace'.
The real reason why this happens is because OpenOffice.org is trying to view a character that does not exist in that particular font, so a question mark is shown instead. Using a question mark for this purpose is totally, utterly *stupid*, but it seems to be quite common (at least KDE and Opera does it). A better solution would be to use a hollow square, like other applications and OSs do. (The square doesn't mean anything, while a misplaced question mark can change the meaning of the text.) Anybody know where to file that bug report? Regards, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
