RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Text rendering status

[Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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          "Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  Martin Wuerthner
> 
>> I do not get that for the first character, but here, it
>> sometimes occurs in the middle of text. The rectangle is not
>> an artifact, it is a real zero-width glyph representing a
>> funny Unicode character that is part of the text object - the
>> FreeType font manager is asked for characters like ffe2
>> ("full width not sign") and other special high values, which
>> are not defined in most fonts.
> 
> So perhaps the text tool is randomly inserting this strange character
> when you type?  I would have thought if it were doing this on Windows
> you'd also see the same rectangle, which generally appears when it can't
> find the character outline I thought.

I do not think it happens with winOil. As far as I can see the 
randomly inserted characters are caused by wxWidgets keypresses with 
funny character codes, so it is more likely a wxWidgets or even wxGTK 
problem.

Martin