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From: Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it>
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Subject: Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol
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James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> writes:

>> # fc-match symbol ; fc-match utopia
>> Symbol.pfb: "Symbol" "Regular"
>> putr8a.pfb: "Utopia" "Regular"

> It might be better to be able to specify within gnuplot the name of
> a symbols font, rather than that name being externally specified --
> eg, gnuplot's help pdfcairo seems to say to use 'usual fonts
> subsystems' for Symbol font control.

for libcairo/libpango the usual fonts subsystem is, on linux,
fontconfig and fontconfig (see above the quoted text from my OP) knows
that symbol is a reference to (the URW clone of) the Adobe font

is it possible that my problem is a utf8 vs ascii problem? gnuplot
pdfcairo's help say something about utf8 but, i must confess, a
chicken has a better understanding of utf8 than mine

thank you for the (omitted) workaround