Pango issue? Symbol font characters above A0 incorrect for multiple applications

[mathog <mathog caltech edu>]

Symbol font characters with hex values >A0 (and <=FF) are generally 
displayed incorrectly in Inkscape and Gimp.
The character shown is not the one corresponding to the hex value.  For 
instance, a5 is either X (times symbol) or
Yen symbol, when it should be the infinity symbol.  Symbol characters 
<A0 display correctly.  This
was seen on Windows XP SP3, with Inkscape 0.48.2, Inkscape trunk (from 
last week) and Gimp 2.6.10.

The two applications give the same wrong characters, so the problem may 
be with Pango, which they both use.

For details and examples for Inkscape see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/948245

Thank you,

David Mathog
mathog caltech edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech