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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

What are "symbol characters"?!

On 03/06/2012 01:54 PM, mathog wrote:
> 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
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