[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 #17 from Dale Wang <xingfunet at sogou.com> ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (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...

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.

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