Comment 18 for bug 948245

The issue has not been resolved per se. I am not sure that it needs to be.

The issue is that Symbol is not a unicode font. If one uses the ^U method to enter A5 for symbol "greater than or equal to" is falls over to some other font, possibly Arial, and produces a "superscript 3" glyph (unicode code point A5).

Inkscape has Symbol as a supported font. (It isn't really though, only the first 128 values are. ) On import from EMF, for instance, such characters are common. However, since libunicode-convert was added to lp988601 these are automatically converted to a font other than Symbol, and a unicode code point. So even though Symbol font is still selectable in Inkscape, there is no reason to use it anymore, at least, not as far as going into or out of EMF is concerned. Instead one would use ^U2265 to enter the "greater than or equal to" code point. If this drawing was exported to EMF, it would (optionally) be converted to Symbol A5 on the fly, if it stays in SVG, it keeps using the Unicode value.

I imagine the issue may still come in the context of other imports/exports, for instane, from CGM or PDF.