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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 03/06/2012 03:23 PM, Jeremie Hornus wrote:
> 
> On 6 Mar 2012, at 20:48, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> What are "symbol characters"?!
> 
> That is characters found in Symbol fonts.
> Font with microsoft's "symbol" codepage, defined in <cmap> by platformID="3"
> platEncID="0"
> 
> The font named "Webdings" is an example of such fonts:
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/fonts/webdings/default.htm

And are you experiencing this on Windows or Linux?  If on Windows, do you know
if it's using the fontconfig backend or the native win32 backend?

behdad


> J.
> 
>>
>> 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 <mailto:mathog caltech edu>
>>> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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