I'm using XXE 3.3.0, Sun J2SE 1.5.0_06 and 1.6 beta 2 on Windows XP. The tab on the right side that shows that character table shows some characters in the 0x7F-0x8F range (inclusive), but there are no visual characters there according to UCS. It seems that the shown gliphs were chosen based on the Windows code-page code points. The practical problem coming from this is that since Windows code-pages store often used things like left- and right-quotation marks and ellipsis there, people will spot them and use them in the documents, add them to the "Favorites", etc. But in fact they will insert some non-visual characters into the XML. Then with the default font that XEE uses for the document view (and *only* with that font, as far as I can tell) the same bug is present, so the author will not notice that something went wrong. Until (s)he generates HTML or something, that is...
(BTW, OT: J2SE 1.6 will support subpixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType) for text. The current 1.6 beta already does. It would be good if that works in XEE... it already works for most GUI components of XEE, but not on the document view somehow.) -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
