Bug 507914

Summary:	The text tool doesn't properly show the Wingdings font
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	fromthetriangle
Component:	Tool/Text	Assignee:	Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	griffinvalley
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/4dcf019ebc059d0314fb26529192c48ea79aa876	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.3
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Description fromthetriangle 2025-08-05 19:02:43 UTC

SUMMARY
When typing needed text using the text tool & selecting the Wingdings font, the result is just blank rectangles. I haven't tried this with other non-letter fonts, so I don't know if they suffer similar problems

STEPS TO REPRODUCE 
1. Type in text using the text tool & set the font to Wingdings
2. Click on "save"

OBSERVED RESULT
The resulting text shows blank rectangles (▯) instead of the symbols that should be there (including the spaces). Edit Text window shows the correct symbols 

EXPECTED RESULT
The Wingdings font working just like any other regular font

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: Windows 11
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When pasting directly converted text from an external source (ex: lingojam.com/WingdingsTranslator) without changing the font in Krita itself, the text shows the correct symbols, but some of them are transformed into emojis; however, I don't know if it's due to Krita itself or the font converter (leaning towards the latter option)

Comment 1 wolthera 2025-08-05 19:48:33 UTC

This is actually already fixed in 5.3 master, but the code in question isn't very backportable (being tied up in a bigger text tool rewrite).

The experience you have with the converter is because the converter takes the text and transforms it into unicode codepoints, while the bug itself is because the wingdings font uses an old-fashioned non-unicode character map that needed to be manually set.