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Description of problem: Tried entering emojis in libreoffice applications. When user tries to enter an emoji, some garbage character gets added in case of some. Also sometimes, some emojis get added twice. Please refer attached screenshot.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libreoffice-core-6.0.6.1-9.el8.x86_64
[test@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.0 Beta (Ootpa) - beta 1.3 build.
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch oowriter
2. press ctrl-shift-e followed by keyword, for e.g. boy
3. hit space twice
4. hit enter
Actual results:
some garbage characters get added with emoji.
Expected results:
There should not be any garbage character or double insertion of emoji.
Additional info:
If I do it in gedit, and cut and paste "👦🏻" from there to writer it happens too, so its not any problem with the input method. Seems there really are two chars there, Unicode Character 'BOY' (U+1F466) followed by Unicode Character 'EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2' (U+1F3FB) so its on the render side of things
If I erase all emoji fonts except for Symbola, then I get the same bustage in gedit as well as LibreOffice, so a key problem seems to be font selection
The key font we want to use is a non-outline font so is rejected by LibreOffice as a candidate, so we'd have to relax that restriction and tweak things to bubble the font down to our cairo renderer. The good news is that if we can get it there, then it seems to render fine
In the OP steps, I couldn't use CTRL-SHIFT-e, but I did use :<emoji name>: and as soon as I entered the second colon, I got the emoji and tried to reproduce the bug. I used writer 6.0.6.1-20 and it looks like it is fixed.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1598