Symbol versus Symbol Std

Since FM8, I use Unicode fonts since it's the only sensible way for multilingual documents. Also, I use Adobe Pi Std for special graphical symbols instead of Wingdings or type 1 Dingbats etc, since it is Unicode and installed with FM8, which makes it much more robust and safe than using encoding in the ascii range. Likewise, Courier Std is used instead of Courier.
However, Symbol is special in FM: I considered to switch to Symbol Std, since it is also installed by FM8, and is a Unicode-only font. However, for equations, FM still uses regular Symbol rather than Symbol Std! This cannot be changed, despite Symbol Std is in the standard FM directory (fminit/fonts/adobe)! This speaks for continuing to use Symbol rather than going for Symbol Std. (Tested by making a PDF and then checking the fonts.) On the other hand, when I copy from a PDF-saved version of the file and paste into FM, a character that used regular Symbol becomes encoded in the Unicode range (above ascii) when pasted into FM (thus requiring Symbol Std instead of Symbol). This latter behavior speaks for using Symbol Std whenever possible, but if so, the PDF file may very well embed BOTH Symbol versions if I have both an equation and some symbols, and this mix seems inelegant to me.
I am interested in hearing other's view on this.
FYI: As for distilling into PDF, I always have the 'Adobe PDF Printing Preferences' set to always include fonts when generating postscript, since not doing this will often crash FM, no matter what fonts you use. A well-known issue with FM since many versions.

Harald,
The font definitions for the equation characters are all stored in the
\fminit\mathchar.cfg file. You can swap out the Symbol if you wish.
Just make a backup copy of this file before you start changing it. ;-)

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