LibreOffice shows me strange characters

My LibreOffice shows strange symbols and characters. I am using Debian8 with XFCE environment. For better understand I have uploaded the screenshot.

How can I solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

verovan

Posted 2015-06-23T14:20:47.953

Reputation: 142

Looks like you're missing the font it's using. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-06-23T14:27:31.050

I never had a problem like this. What do you mean with missing the font? – verovan – 2015-06-23T14:30:26.087

Answers

This isn't a definitive answer, but an answer is the only way to post an image.

It looks like the system font, or at least the one used by LibreOffice, has been changed, or is missing and another font has been substituted. From the menu, click on Tools | Options | View and look at whether Use system font for user interface is checked:

Screenshot

If LibreOffice is the only thing with a messed up display, I would suspect that box to not be checked (and possibly another font specified on the Fonts window farther down the list). If so, select that box to use the system font. You might need to quit and restart LibreOffice for the change to take effect.

fixer1234

Posted 2015-06-23T14:20:47.953

Reputation: 24 254

Thanks for answering. With the option Use system font for user interface unchecked, it does not show me strange symbols. But it still displays those symbols in the options menu, but not in the submenus... weird :S – verovan – 2015-06-23T21:13:49.307

Click on the fonts window on the left side several options down. Check whether any replacement fonts have been defined in the top half of the window (normally, that would be empty). If the option to use system fonts is checked, and the system fonts display normally elsewhere, it ought to work in LibreOffice. This is really strange. – fixer1234 – 2015-06-23T21:22:05.633

I've expected the same problem: strange fonts in LibreOffice (and Konsole). I'm using Linux Mint 17.2 & XFCE. The reason was one of the following:

In settings manager - appearance the default font was set (by me) as "dingbats"
Eventually, in windows manager the title font, was also set as "dingbats"

After changing both to another ("normal") font - LibreOffice (and Konsole) regained its normal appearance.

user580372

Posted 2015-06-23T14:20:47.953

Reputation: 11