running Gimp 2.6 on Windows XP, these fonts appear to be supported properly. I tested symbol.ttf and Wingdings.ttf and ExtraS R from Bug 887327 to confirm that they work.
It appears that this problem was solved in Gimp by switching from Pango 1.2 to Pango 1.4, according to : http://docs.gimp.org/en/font-problems.html
perhaps the same upgrade would work on Inkscape as well
running Gimp 2.6 on Windows XP, these fonts appear to be supported properly. I tested symbol.ttf and Wingdings.ttf and ExtraS R from Bug 887327 to confirm that they work.
It appears that this problem was solved in Gimp by switching from Pango 1.2 to Pango 1.4, according to : docs.gimp. org/en/ font-problems. html
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perhaps the same upgrade would work on Inkscape as well