Incorrect detection of font name in star writer

I have found that StarSuite7 (patch level 5) does not detect
Japanese font names under cirtain circumstances and
this resulted in incorrect display of characters : Worse, in my case,
the incorrectly recognized font name resulted in invisible character
and I failed to notice an important mark.
I am attaching the document that shows the problem.
What happens is this.
The first line contains a Japanse sentence that is followed
by a "bold right arrow mark" in WingDing font.
The Japanese sentence part is recognized to have the
font name "MS Gothic" (actually in Japanese character name.).
This part is correctly recognized by StarSuite7 (patch5) both under
linux and w2k platform.
Unfortunately, the wingding font name is incorrectly recognized
as "MS mincho" (again actually in Japanese character name), and
thus this right arrow is incorrectly rendered.
I am attaching a file that shows this problem.
This may be very L18N-related, but I hope someone can take a lookt at this problem.

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