On 24 October 2010 13:56, Andrew West <andrewcw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows
> applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems
> when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by
> a glyph for the Angel of Death in Symbola) with Symbola version 6.00
> at high point sizes (pasting 12 x U+1F5FD into Notepad with font set
> to Symbola 72pts reliably crashes my Windows XP machine, but not my
> Vista machine). So I advise people to use the Symbola font with
> caution.

Symbola has now been updated to version 6.01 which replaces the
problematic glyphs at U+1F5FB through U+1F5FF with the correct glyphs,
and now seems to be safe to use.

Andrew

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