Bugzilla Bug 924

When you load a document which contains characters in the Standard Symbols font
and which was created in AbiWord on a different platform, the symbols don't look
right. What happens is that when it loads the document, the ASCII (or whatever)
values are correct, but it displays the glyphs from the font Arial.

Steps to reproduce:
Create a new AbiWord document in Linux.
Insert some symbols from the Standard Symols font (such as the clubs, diamonds,
hearts, and spades symbols).
Save the document.
Open it in AbiWord on Windows.

The ideal solution is really to convert characters in the Symbol font to their
correct Unicode codepoints, and remap them when displaying and printing. This
will make sure symbols work correctly even when the Symbol font isn't available
(but another Unicode font is). This is especially important when exporting to
HTML and LaTeX. Some browsers (correctly!) display the letter 'p' as a 'p' from
Arial or another font instead of the pi character, even when Symbol is selected
as a font. The logic is this: The author has asked for the letter 'p'. The
Symbol font doesn't include the letter 'p' (since it's a symbol font),
therefore we have to substitute it with another font. This is the correct way
to do it, and it'll be easier to convert to the correct characters (when
exporting) if AbiWord stores them as Unicode internally.

We now use "symbol" font for "Standard Symbols"

Isn't this fixed?  

Need this to be checked again - I remember a long thread on the
developer list about this issue a long time ago. Someone with access
to both Linux and Windows give this a go.

Got it. Inserted several symbols under Linux and it looks great in Windows.

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