you should file a bug report on this fix :-)
lquote and friends should go to the unicode x20xx
chars -- but for now need to be mapped to latin-1
until we get the correct fix for this.
>The RTF importer was passing the characters along ok, but the rest of the
>code couldn't quite handle it. So as someone who isn't a full time
>programmer, what does it take now to handle these characters such as
>\rquote, \lquote and \bullet? I know the piece table is set up to work in
>groups of 2 bytes. Is this a 1-hour or 1-month job?
give those two scale factors, i'd say 1-month.
the problem you saw is in the formatter -- it is computing character
widths for display using an array[256] of font metrics. **but** before
anyone goes and tries a 's/256/65536/g', i'll say that fixing this code
and the assert is just the beginning of a larger set of changes. eric
has a set of notes on these which i need to dig up.
jeff