> in my application i have problems with some fonts, which every
> character displayed as box. After analyzing the fonts, it seem's
> that freetype can't handle some fonts from Linguist's Software.
How do you come to that conclusion?
> [...] "We also have an interesting finding: Although Symbol font is
> determined by a symbol bit flag in OS2 table ulCodePageRange1
> combined with a symbol cmap subtable in TTF file, Window seems not
> respecting this rule. Practically, Windows treat any fonts with
> symbol cmap subtable as symbol font (sample TT fonts are MT Extra,
> CityBlueprint, CommercialPi BT, CountryBlueprint, EuroRoman,
> PanRoman, Romantic, SansSerif, SuperFrench, Technic, UniversalMath1
> BT, etc). In the test package, statement "P20" proves this point.
This observation is for Wine, which is at least one level above
FreeType.
> Any ideas, how to handle this fonts with freetype?
Just select a symbol map directly. I can't see a problem at all.
Please elaborate. Note that FreeType always try to select a Unicode
cmap by default, but an application can change this whenever
necessary.
Werner
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