> Mike Maxwell wrote: > I didn't manage to use the fontconfig.properties you sent me. After > installing the fonts you sent me (I had Arial Unicode MS) and copying > your fontconfig.properties to jre/lib/, Java fails to start!
Bizarre--I did not have this problem. > I fixed this in our code. Our bug was to assume that 0-width characters > were bugs in the Java fonts and therefore, we displayed them as little > rectangles. Now, thanks to your excellent report, we have finally > understood that these characters are highly useful and that Java renders > them properly. Thanks for the complement :-). > You'll find the bug fix in XXE v4 (released next week), so give up the > idea of using XXE v3.8.1. Great! Thank you for fixing this so quickly--I've always been impressed with how much y'all at XMLmind/ Pixware take care of the customer. I don't suppose you found out why the Arabic font override doesn't work? (Where I was trying to use the Nafees Nastaleeq font for the Arabic part of Unicode, although in fact I haven't been able to substitute *any* font for the default Serif or SansSerif font). I don't think this has to do with zero-width characters, and I haven't been able to make it work in any version of XXE. Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD
