Characters not displaying properly in Libre Office latest version

[Oriel-TzviShaer]

Shalom,
After upgrading Libre Office from ver 5.0.6 to 5.1.5 and then to 5.2.2.2,
I noticed that many characters are faulty.

For example:
In Calc:
In the columns’ headings: A, B, C, D, etc.-
B → _ (underline),
D → a,
H → e,
J → g,
O → l,
W → t,
AB → A_,
… and so on.

In the rows’ headings: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. -
3 → P,
6 → S,
13 → 1P,
…and so on.

Also in other places in the program these errors occur.
And also in other applications of Libre Office.

I must say that I’m using a version with Hebrew Language,
I suppose the English version is clear of this bug.

I’ll try to uninstall Libre Office and then reinstall this time in English somehow

[Oriel-TzviShaer]

I tried uninstall and then install,
the bug is still there though less.

[Oriel-TzviShaer]

I changed language to English,
with assistance from here,
and didn’t help.

I did notice though, that when I enter Libre office from the icon in the start menu, the bug mostly disappears, but when I open a file from desktop, the bug appears

[Oriel-TzviShaer]

Fixed.
The file itself was causing the error somehow
(maybe because I had started it in an earlier version of Libre Office).
I recreated a new file, saved it on desktop, and now it’s ok.
Still there was some bug which caused me all this fuss.
Hope this post is useful to anyone

[pinkgothic]

Just wanted to add that a book I’d written in Apache OpenOffice and opened in LibreOffice had what appears to be the exact same problem. It’s written in English, though it also uses combining diaeresis (U+0308) and a combining double inverted breve (U+0361) in places. I initially thought it had loaded fine but had to notice now that I’ve started editing that it’s changed various words of my conlang (e.g. “Jabenash” is now “gabenash”).

[pinkgothic]

That said, it seems to be a pure display issue - I find “gabenash” if I search “Jabenash”. My solution will be to (re)install Apache OpenOffice and do my editing there (I still have unadulterated saves from the last version there) - I don’t trust LibreOffice with Apache OpenOffice files at all now, and after two years of working on this book I’m not willing to risk overlooking a problem that might persist into an export as an ebook.

[pinkgothic]

If it helps anyone interested in diagnosing the error: While I can’t guarantee it, I think only my conlang is affected. It uses a different font (Arial) than the rest of the document (Verdana), and the UTF-8 characters I mentioned are only ever used in the conlang format-style. So in my case, it’s possible LibreOffice is switching to some other display mode for that style, triggered by the combining UTF8.