[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 48040] ZapfDingbats substitution by wingding.ttf may not work

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48040

--- Comment #5 from suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp> 2012-03-29 05:22:34 PDT ---
Considering that Dingbats is already included in ISO/IEC 10646
(U+2700 - U+27BF), the right attitude to use Dingbats with
TrueType fonts would be 1) finding a TrueType font supporting
Dingbats character set, and 2) map from the 8bit codepoint for
ZapfDingbats Type1 font to UCS.
However, the Dingbats blocks of UCS is not same with ZapfDingbats.
Some arrows, stars etc are recognized as "already coded at
different blocks", so simple mathematical translation (e.g.
0x2700 + ZapfDingbats 8bit code) is insufficient. Some mapping
table would be needed.

I wish if iconv() supports such translation between old 8bit
cod and UCS, but it seems that GNU libiconv() does not support
Dingbat.

In addition, it seems that no compact font supporting Dingbats
is bundled to Microsoft Windows. The fonts supporting Dingbats
are huge fonts, like, Arial Unicode, MS-Mincho, MS-Gothic,
MingLiU, etc. It is difficult to determine which is most
portable.

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