[Fontconfig] Webdings and other MS symbol fonts don't display

[Akira TAGOH]

looks good to me.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> Revised patch attached, to declare zero language coverage for symbol fonts.
>
> On 15-05-18 12:29 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Patch attached.  Needs documentation and comments, but otherwise looks
> about
> > right to me.  Please review.
> >
> > b
> >
> > On 15-05-17 05:09 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> >> On 05/14/15 21:38, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >>> On 15-05-14 03:32 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> >>>> On 05/13/15 03:45, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >>>>> On 15-05-12 04:45 PM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> >>>>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway when I try rendering some text in WPF using WingDings I see
> that the
> >>>> glyphs are accessible in two ways:
> >>>>
> >>>> * old 8-bit codepoints (0x20..0xff)
> >>>> * PUA codepoints (0xf020..0xf0ff)
> >>>
> >>> What happens if you remove the macroman subtable?  Does it still do
> the 8-bit
> >>> mapping?
> >>
> >> Yes, same behavior. (To avoid confusion with the stock Wingdings I
> renamed the
> >> stripped font and used the WPF FontFamily constructor with a distinct
> >> directory location, so I'm quite sure.)
> >>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> Ok, so detecting such symbol fonts and treating them specially is
> certainly
> >>> possible.  We just need to figure out what special treatment is
> suitable.  I
> >>> think I'm fine with adding your hack, but also marking the font with a
> special
> >>> marker, such that only if a binding=strong family match happens the
> font is
> >>> picked up and never as a fallback.  That should address all problems
> we know
> >>> of, right? ;)
> >>
> >> I think the binding=strong check may not even be necessary. Since
> Wingdings
> >> etc. aren't in any alias rules, the only way they would be chosen as
> fallback
> >> (even in the presence of strong 'lang' elements) is if there was none
> other
> >> available. And that's highly unlikely due to 49-sansserif.conf.
> >>
> >> After all, I don't recall any such bugreports for 2.8.0...
> >>
> >> Raimund
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
>



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Akira TAGOH
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