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 >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gtk-i18n-list mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-i18n-list mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list >> > _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
