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