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

[mathog <mathog caltech edu>]

I built a few small test programs and was able to rule out Cairo as the 
source of the problem.
Symbol font rendered correctly (to PNG in this case) if just the "toy" 
Cairo text interface was
used.  The equivalent Pango test program seemed to be ignoring the font 
name "symbol" or "Symbol", or
at least the output produced was identical to output when the font was 
"blather", which is definitely
not a font on my system. Ditto for "Bookshelf Symbol 7", "Wingdings". 
It did use the right font for
"Times New Roman" and even "Blackadder ITC".  All of the fonts which 
were ignored work
perfectly well in MS Word, PowerPoint, etc. on this Windows XP system.

The test code is here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/948245/+attachment/2836479/+files/testcairo.zip

So I am more confused than before.  Inkscape uses Pango.  In Inkscape 
"symbol" font works (giving
"alpha" for "a", for instance) for characters <128, but in my little 
test program
case not even that worked.  Is there some define that is needed to 
enable Pango to see the
fonts Windows is using on the system?

Thanks,

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