There has been 3 independent reports of crashes with some fonts on Windows:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1496795... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1495807&gr... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1494337&gr...
At least 2 of them are Pango errors, and I suspect the third one is as well. On Linux these fonts seem to work fine.
The problem is that now it crashes as soon as you open the drop-down in the text toolbar, because of auto previews. Previously it only crashed if you clicked specifically on that font in Font dialog list. So now Inkscape _seems_ much more crashy. And judging by the number of the reports, this is going to be a really major problem.
What do we do? Disable previews in drop-down until this is fixed? This is the easiest thing to do, and of course only a partial solution (it will still crash if you select that font).
Or, try to find out what these fonts have in common (something encoding related I guess) and just disable all such fonts.
Or, (most difficult) fix this bug in Pango and ship our own Pango dll (as we do) with this fix.
Thoughts?