[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 #16 from Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop at behdad.org> ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > 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...

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