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[lyx.git] / src / frontends / qt4 / GuiFontLoader.cpp

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontLoader.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontLoader.cpp
index 39a4b17a3c558d491df476c262be175b45ab7686..fa5370cfd32497624e11e7efea248de326b78e9c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontLoader.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontLoader.cpp
@@ -343,6 +343,16 @@ bool FontLoader::available(FontInfo const & f)
        static vector<int> cache(NUM_FAMILIES, false);
 
        FontFamily family = f.family();
+#ifdef Q_WS_MACX
+       // Apple ships a font name "Symbol", which has more or less the same
+       // glyphs as the original PostScript Symbol font, but it uses a different
+       // encoding (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface)#cite_note-2).
+       // Since we expect the font specific encoding of the original
+       // PostScript Symbol font, we can't use the one provided on OS X.
+       // See also the discussion in bug 7954.
+       if (f.family() == SYMBOL_FAMILY)
+               return false;
+#endif
        if (cache_set[family])
                return cache[family];
        cache_set[family] = true;