On Saturday, July 6, 2002, at 04:11 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> There are going to be documents containing this character -- and ZWNJ -- > and fonts that do not contain these characters may display them with > .notdef glyphs. The only solution is system or application intelligence > that is able to ensure that no attempt is made to display glyphs for > these characters. This issue seems to have already been resolved in MS > text processing, at least as far as I have tested it in WordPad. I have > inserted a ZWJ character in a string of text using a standard PS Type 1 > font, and the character is treated as a zero-width, no outline control > character. > Well, by default no attempt is made to display glyphs for these characters. (Somebody may have a "show invisibles" or equivalent on. BTW, does OT have a "show invisibles" feature? I'm too lazy to check right now.) We also have a list of "invisible" characters which should, ordinarily, be left undisplayed including ZWJ, ZWNJ, the bidi overrides, and so on. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
