Getting victory hands symbol from Wingdings

[Andreas Falkenhahn]

I'm having some problems working with Wingdings.ttf from Microsoft. The font 
has three charmaps:

Charmap 0: FT_ENCODING_APPLE_ROMAN
Charmap 1: FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL
Charmap 2: FT_ENCODING_UNICODE

As per the documentation, FT_ENCODING_UNICODE is selected as the active charmap 
by FT_Open_Face(). 

Now I want to get the "victory hands" symbol from Wingdings using 
FT_Get_Char_Index(). In Apple Roman encoding, this symbol is at codepoint $41. 
In MS Symbol encoding it is at codepoint $F041. In Unicode it should be at 
codepoint $270C. 

However, FT_Get_Char_Index() only works correctly for Apple Roman and MS Symbol 
encoding. FT_Get_Char_Index() correctly returns 36 for codepoint $41 if the 
active charmap is Apple Roman and it also correctly returns 36 for codepoint 
$F041 if the active charmap is MS Symbol.

If the active charmap is Unicode, though, FT_Get_Char_Index() returns 0 for 
codepoint $270C. What's the reason for this? Is the Unicode charmap in 
Wingdings somehow broken or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks!

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Best regards,
 Andreas Falkenhahn                          mailto:andreas@falkenhahn.com