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 >>>> [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
