Actually, I consider that a good feature to have, but I never really
got around to looking at how to decode them from the font files.
I also have a bug assigned to me about diacritic characters and
metrics, where Adobe's ParseAFM code just returns 0 for character
widths for anything with a charcode above 127 for our fonts. What little
information the Adobe Type 1 specification documents tell me is
along the lines of "if the width is specified to be 0, then the character
is not in the font." Does Maxwell deal with high-side Latin 1
character metrics gracefully? Is it just a matter of getting better
fonts? :)
-- Shaw Terwilliger