[Bug 2129399] Postscript standard symbol font is not looked up correctly

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129399



--- Comment #24 from Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com&gt; ---
Not exactly. "Symbol" isn't a sort of generic alias family name such as
sans-serif. fontconfig just tries to find out a best font against the request
where may contains "Symbol" in family name. that is almost equivarent to find
out "Cantarell" as a desktop font in GNOME. If not, trying to pick something up
by other conditions then.

In that sense, that could be said that we are *just* missing a "Symbol" font.
This isn't a sort of bug.

If we are going to deal with "Symbol" without any special handling, thus, we
just need to add a substitute config to the proper font package which has
enough coverage or metrics compatible for "Symbol".
To be convenient, we could add it into fontconfig but it won't fix any issues
without real fonts. so we should find out any candidate font packages for that
instead of doing something in fontconfig.


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