I think so. The use of "#" is mostly historical due to lack of Unicode support initially. At least I believe so. The first fonts were WinAnsi only. IMO, it makes sense to make that transition. However, for single-byte fonts, we might still need to use "#". Not sure.
On 07.01.2011 14:17:42 Simon Pepping wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:31:07AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50471 > > > > --- Comment #4 from Andreas L. Delmelle <[email protected]> 2011-01-07 > > 07:31:03 EST --- > > > > Very right indeed. > > So, if no one objects, I will apply the patch as proposed. FOP will no > > longer > > crash, but simply show a '#' for such unassigned codepoints in the output. > > Treating them as regular alphabetic characters seems to be safe enough for > > the > > time being. > > Would it not be better to use character FFFD, 'Replacement Character', > ?, for this? > > Simon Jeremias Maerki
