<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED --- - font "Wingdings" is displayed incorrectly and the bug in fontconfig crashes xfd" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58641#c17">Comment # 17</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED --- - font "Wingdings" is displayed incorrectly and the bug in fontconfig crashes xfd" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58641">bug 58641</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:xingfunet@sogou.com" title="Dale Wang <xingfunet@sogou.com>"> Dale Wang</a> <pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=58641#c16">comment #16</a>) > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=58641#c15">comment #15</a>) > > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=58641#c14">comment #14</a>) > > > My interest is in SFNT bitmap-only fonts, not BDF. > > > > > > I don't think we need to do anything about this bug right now. > > > > Can you give me some advice if I still want to use those fonts on my system? > > Get another symbol font that uses the standard UTF encoding to display the > > symbols provided by Wingdings? Or just change some configuration? Thank you > > very much. > > What's your use case? I don't think you can use it with Pango, since it has > no reasonable character map. You are still free to open the font directly > (using FreeType API) and use it... OK, I got it. Thank you very much. I will try to persuade the developers who still use Symbol & Wingdings fonts in their softwares to change to anoter font or draw the character directly via FreeType API.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>