Bullets and Numbering, Outline: what's the point of showing a suffix after a bullet character?

[cwolan]

Open the Bullets and Numbering dialog and select the Outline tab. Look at the preview of the two outline formats:

• 2nd format in the 1st row: Level 5
• 4th format in the 2nd row: Level 3

In both cases, the bullet character is followed by a character (suffix). The user interface does not allow editing it in the dialog box or display it in the actual list.
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Hence the question as in this topic title: what is it for?

[mikekaganski]

obviously a bug; do you suspect something else here?

[PKG]

The bug has apparently been carried over from OpenOffice.

[cwolan]

@mikekaganski

obviously a bug;

Bug report submitted: tdf#168706

@mikekaganski

do you suspect something else here?

Just the usual stuff, you know, alien influence, global/international conspiracy… that kind of thing.

@PKG

The bug has apparently been carried over from OpenOffice.

Indeed. I see it even in StarOffice 6.0 on Windows.