[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 #19 from Qian Hong <fracting at gmail.com> ---
FWIW, the Wine project re-implemented wingdings font:
http://source.winehq.org/source/fonts/
It is not complete yet.

Wine also support "symbol" encoding, which might be a useful reference for
people want to support "symbol" encoding in other Linux program. BTW, anyone
know if Mac OS support "symbol" encoding?
http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/gdi32/freetype.c

For people who want to contribute to open source alternative fonts for
windings/windings2/windings3/webdings, here is a good start:
http://unicode.org/~asmus/web-wing-ding-ext.pdf 
The above report analysed windings/windings2/webdings and found same/similar
glyphs in unicode standard.
Nowadays more symbol glyphs are added to latest unicode standard, which covers
more windings(n)/webdings glyphs.
We are working on extent the above report base on PCANet:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3606

Symbola font contains many glyphs which is useful for re-implementing
windings(n)/webdings:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
According to the above page, the license of Symbola is "free for any use".

Cheers.

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