>> One quick-and-dirty solution that's been proposed is to just add some
>> sort of tag to the fontName property to indicate that all text in this
>> font should be rendered in double-byte chunks. For example, the
>> fontName might be set to "Helvetica,W" or "Helvetica/U" (i.e., "wide"
>> or "unicode" tags). It would be relatively straightforward to hide
>> this hack in the UI (so the user would not have to see these names),
>> but it would maybe cause some problems for automated tools. We'd also
>> have to be very careful to choose a delimiter that would never be
>> found in any font name. Suggestions?
Scott,
please don't do it. Metacharacters and "tags" are bad. I'd prefer a
unicodeFonts property that contains a list of all fonts that are to be
rendered as unicode.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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