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

[Jeremie Hornus <jeremie hornus com>]

On 6 Mar 2012, at 21:29, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> 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?

I am not experiencing David Mathog's problem; was just detailing what "symbol character" meant in that situation.


regards,
Jeremie


> 
> 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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