[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 58641] font "Wingdings" is displayed incorrectly and the bug in fontconfig crashes xfd

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58641

--- Comment #12 from Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop at behdad.org> ---
The change indeed was a result of removing the Apple Roman encoding.  However,
I don't think it's incorrect.

The font has two cmap tables:

  1. Apple Roman.  This one incorrectly maps Latin characters to the wingding
symbols.

  2. MS Symbol.  This one maps private-use-area characters to the symbol.

Now, for some reason we are NOT reading the second table, so previously we were
relying on the first one, which we don't read anymore.

The problem is, symbol fonts have no defined encoding.  One would never know
what the glyph at position one really is.  So I think it's correct for
fontconfig to NOT enumerate those glyphs.

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