Re: ib - r31623 - abiword/trunk/src/af/gr/xp

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Ingo Brückl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jean Brefort wrote on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:48:55 +0200:
>
>> Le mercredi 01 août 2012 à 11:37 +0200, Ingo Brückl a écrit :
>>> Jean Brefort wrote on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:31:49 +0200:
>>>
>>> > Why should we use the Symbol font at all and not unicode characters?
>>> > Just like for Dingbats.
>>>
>>> We *are* using unicode characters (i.e. unicode codings), but we'd need an
>>> appropriate font to see the (correct) glyphs.
>>>
>
>> Pango is not able to do the job?
>
> Sure, but I described the problems in my posting on Tue, 31 Jul 2012
> 13:57:56. Even pango has to find a matching font in all the applicable
> font maps.
>
> Ingo

It turns out that we are doing font substitution only for text runs,
and not for field runs (the bullets are in field runs). I started
working on a patch to fix the problem.

(Ingo, pango should be able to find a substitue for Dingbats and
Symbol if you have the font DejaVu Sans).

Simon