Le Jeu 30 août 2012 18:42, Kieran a écrit : > On 29/08/2012 04:41, Akira TAGOH wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Kieran <kieran.mccusker@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm not sure if this is the right list but I'm using fc17 and have >>> installed >>> the Microsoft webcore fonts (using yum install >>> webcore-fonts-3.0-1.noarch.rpm) >>> >>> the standard fonts are fine but the symbol fonts don't show any charset >>> (and don't display any characters). >> That result came from the Apple Roman cmap support in fontconfig and >> removed since 2.9.0 because it caused a trouble. basically there are >> nothing relationship to languages in symbol fonts and there are no way >> to know what characters they have in Unicode unless they are Unicode >> font or following any standard. so no charset in the result. >> >> This is expected behavior in a symbol font. >> > Hi > > Sorry for bothering this list again. My problem is that I want to use > these fonts with pango. > > If I try to use pango-view --font="webdings" /etc/passwd on the fc14 box > all is well. On the fc17 box it drops back to arial and in my > application which produces PDFs it produces a little sqiggle. Is it > possible to use these fonts using pango with the latest stack? Regardless of the issues with webdings, why are you using non-unicode proprietary symbol fonts on Fedora when it ships many libre symbol fonts with unicode encoding? Is there a specific symbol libre fonts do not provide? Unicode adoption on *nix is deep enough nowadays anything else can only result in pain -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
